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Love Quotes by Harold Bloom
- There is no method except yourself.
- Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you…
- Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?
- Literature is achieved anxiety.
- I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of…
- One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows itself…
- No one yet has managed to be post-Shakespearean.
- To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,
- Shakespeare is universal.
- The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
- There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
- We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.
- We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
- It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary.
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
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