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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Leo Aikman

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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

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