"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

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"Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find."

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"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody."

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