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> [I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/claire-tomalin/i-thought-it-was-a-glorious-thing-to-be-a-critic-and-to-be-a-literary/)

[Claire Tomalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/claire-tomalin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fce/claire-tomalin-8837_books_i-thought-it-was-a-glorious-thing-to-be_1575054.jpg)

> [After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-truss/after-university-i-got-a-job-sub-editing-and-for-years-i-was-a/)

[Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-truss/)

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