Tom Stoppard quote: I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which ...

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

~ Tom Stoppard ~

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