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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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. – 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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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean Im told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. – Harold Bloom

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. – E.P. Whipple

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marxs Capital. – W. E. B. Du Bois

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. – Charles W. Eliot

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Its clever, but is it Art? – Rudyard Kipling

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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. – Marian Wright Edelman

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