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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Source: From a Writer's Notebook, 1958.
-- Van Wyck Brooks, (Feb 16 1886-1963), US literary critic, cultural historian; He saw literature as an outgrowth of a national culture; wrote America's Coming of Age, 1915.