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Quote by Harold Bloom
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – Harold Bloom

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

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Books
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Harold Bloom
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom

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teacher
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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom

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Poetry
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Literary
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I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish Ill know how it turned out. – Nora Ephron

Category:
Literary

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Literary

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew

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Literary

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. – Jane Austen

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Literary

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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Language

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. – Rick Boucher

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communication

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

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Promises

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government. – Steven Hatfill

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Freedom