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"[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature."
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Source: As quoted in The Cat Who Thought Too Much - An Essay Into Felinity by Robin D. Gill, Paraverse Press, (p. 153), 2010.
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