"I think Freud is about contamination, but I……" — Harold Bloom
"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 say."
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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 Contamination Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life is a school, a place for us to learn and grow. We, like Adam and Eve, experience 'growing pains'…
— Bruce C. Hafen
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
— David Brin
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The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from…
— Lois Gibbs
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It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they…
— Charles Hodge
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I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
— Laozi
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People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we…
— Louis Zamperini
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In strongly opposing the world of play to that of reality, and in stressing that play is essentially a side…
— Roger Caillois
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It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
— Bela Kun
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The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and…
— Josh Fox
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Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant…
— James Fallows
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