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Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy…
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There is no method except yourself.
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic…
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
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We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history…
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At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes…
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your…
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3HO is a family of healthy, happy, and holy people. Do you understand the word "family"? If, under all longitudes and latitudes,…
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We call it 3HO, an organization of healthy, happy, and holy people. It has no membership charge, no presidents, and at this…
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We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people…
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you…
— Harold Bloom
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The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from…
— Stephen J. Binz
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There are no holy places and no holy people, only holy moments, only moments of wisdom.
— Jack Kornfield
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All are called to holiness, and holy people alone can renew humanity.
— Pope John Paul II
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I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does…
— Gene Wolfe
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To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise…
— John Henry Newman
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I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches?…
— George Carlin
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If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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So much for holy people. Bunch of bald assholes. -Phil
— The Hangover 2
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