“We shouldn’t call a critic a murderer just because it is his duty to sign death certificates.”
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Die Anwalte der Literatur (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“We shouldn’t call a critic a murderer just because it is his duty to sign death certificates.”
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Die Anwalte der Literatur (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)
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