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“John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

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Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

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