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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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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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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 don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
— Harold Bloom
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If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if…
— Malcolm X
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We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no…
— Thomas Carlyle
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After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men…
— H. L. Mencken
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(After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values.…
— Richard Matheson
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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely…
— H. L. Mencken
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