Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Raymond Chandler
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- An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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