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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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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves…
— Giacomo Casanova
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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and…
— Lord Chesterfield
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
— Thomas Paine
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He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
— George Berkeley
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
— Daniel Defoe
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
— Thomas Otway
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It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…
— Denis Diderot
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We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.
— William Shakespeare
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