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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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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to…
— John Owen
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Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my…
— David Icke
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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…
— Harold Bloom
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish…
— Erika Slezak
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Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day.…
— Matthieu Ricard
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You have to be taught to leave us alone. Leave us alone.
— Unknown Author
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You develop a team to achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. All of us alone are weaker, by far, than if…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings…
— Bell Hooks
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