John Updike quote: The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

~ John Updike ~

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a super...

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