To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
I want to save my soul, that timid wind.
How boring just to be a body.
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.