Quote by Harold Bloom
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can affor

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. – Harold Bloom

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Knowledge
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. – Harold Bloom

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strength
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – Harold Bloom

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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. – Rose Macaulay

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The wise man reads both books and life itself. – Lin Yutang

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

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