“I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value. However, let it go. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden.”
Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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