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Gore Vidal
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Engrave this Quote Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.
(Gore Vidal writing about the critic Edmund Wilson)
-Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books, 1993 Tell a Friend


 


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