Whitney Balliett Quotes

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“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.”

Dinosaurs in the Morning, Introduction http://books.google.com/books?id=pLROAAAAMAAJ&q=%22A+critic+is+a+bundle+of+biases+held+loosely+together+by+a+sense+of+taste%22&pg=PA11#v=onepage (1962)

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