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Quote ~ 2011-02-03 ~ Mark

Strange as it may sound to many people, who tend to think of critics as being motivated by the lower emotions: envy, disdain, contempt even… Critics are, above all, people who are in love with beautiful things, and who worry that those things will get broken.

Daniel Mendelsohn. (via a previous version of myself)
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