"More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists,……" — Harold Bloom
"More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men."
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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 Baptists Quotes
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one of 110 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
— Octavia Butler
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught…
— Jimmy Carter
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Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey…
— Arianna Huffington
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It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up,…
— Francois Mauriac
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Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the…
— Joan Rivers
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Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.
— Samuel Bowers
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What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come…
— Malcolm X
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with…
— Ray Bradbury
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
— Robert Graves
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The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep,…
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would…
— Flannery O'Connor
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But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
— Tim McGraw
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