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Thinking Quotes by Harold Bloom
- I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.
- I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might…
- What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical…
- The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes…
- 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…
- The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or…
- You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have…
- I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two…
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