Sunday, February 28, 2010

Flaubert on Critics

Someone who sells written reviews of books, art works, theater plays, and concerts.

Critic: "Always prominent. Besides, reputed to know everything, to be aware of everything, to have read everything and seen everything. When one displeases you, call him Aristarchus, or a eunuch."

Flaubert, Dictionary of Platitudes (1880).

[Translation by J. I. Rodale (1954).]

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