"Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes……" — Harold Bloom
"Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable."
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66 Quotes by Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom has 66 quotes on this site.
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a…
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of…
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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…
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a…
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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…
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I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the…
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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…
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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…
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even…
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More Bearable Quotes
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will…
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
— Robyn Davidson
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
— Gail Caldwell
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of…
— John Banville
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at…
— Robert Frost
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