Quote by Mark Edmundson
““The reason to read Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to become more cultivated or more articulate... The best reason to read them is to see if they may know you better than you know yourself. You may find your own suppressed and rejected thoughts flowing back to you with an "alienated majesty””
![“The presence of God compelled human[s] to quest for an ideal. They had to strive for something to win God's blessing… Nietzsche feared that with God's passing even that striving would stop. No one would think it worthwhile to try to overcome himself. People who would live happily with their own…” quote by Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc3/mark-edmundson-35432_nature-of-man_the-presence-of-god-compelled-human-s-to_1129279.jpg)
![“[Steven] King is an entertainment. King is a diversion. But when you try to take him as a guide to life, he won't work. The circles he draws on the deep are weak and irresolute. And this is so in part because King...is a sentimental writer. In his universe, the children...are good, right, just and…” quote by Mark Edmundson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f77/mark-edmundson-35432_life_steven-king-is-an-entertainment-king-is_2191151.jpg)
