In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the vi…

John Steinbeck
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In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. ✨ John Steinbeck (1980). Travels with Charley in Search of America, p.47, Penguin
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