“There is no surer sign of a great writer than when whole books could be made out of his passing remarks.”
Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg, Aphorismen (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“There is no surer sign of a great writer than when whole books could be made out of his passing remarks.”
Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg, Aphorismen (quoted in Clive James, Cultural Amnesia)
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