quotes

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.

see also Huckleberry Who? about Bayard's best seller How to Talk About Books That You Haven't Read

Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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