If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.

~ Laurent Binet

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Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.

~ Johnny Rich

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As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

~ Johnny Rich

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So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

~ Johnny Rich

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