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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
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As quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 20

 

Brendan Behan

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