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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. - Chinese Proverb

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. – Chinese Proverb

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

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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Criticism

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Criticism

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

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Criticism

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Silence is more musical than any song. – Christina Rossetti

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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. – Compay Segundo

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If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. – Pat Robertson

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No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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