If you cared about music — or food or movies or sex or politics or anything at all — you would know that passions run in both directions. To feel intense love is also to know intense hatred. If you don’t care enough about something to hate the worst in it, then you aren’t capable of appreciating the best. You’re either numb or have no standards (which is the same thing). So, to say you will only write about what you like is vacuous, dishonest, one-dimensional. If you care enough to write about something, you can’t ignore a whole part of your sensibility. Your yin is shapeless and meaningless without your yang.
— Confessions of a lousy critic - scanners
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