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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they read more
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Words of love, are works of love.
Words of love, are works of love.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before read more
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a read more
A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
