"To criticize it would be like tripping a dwarf."
-Wilfrid Sheed on Otto Preminger's "Hurry Sundown,"
My new favorite quotation and applicable to so many things. I ran across this yesterday catching up on book chats by Washington Post's Michael Dirda my current favorite critic and who I turn to first when looking for something to read. One comes out of a chat session with a multitude of suggestions. Links are below but you may have to register for free to read them in their entirety.
Dirda on Books Archive here.
Dirda Reviews Archive here.
2 comments:
It is kind of perfect. Can I steal that?
Naturally. I have always lived by the words of W. Somerset Maugham, "The abiltiy to quote is a servicable subsitute for wit."
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