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Quote by Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin

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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. – Nelson Algren

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. – Joseph Addison

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Criticism should be a casual conversation. – W. H. Auden

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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. – Paul Nurse

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