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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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Criticism in the universities, Ill have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. Its Stalinism without Stalin. – Harold Bloom

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Sympathy
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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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Future
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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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Other Quotes from
Literary
category

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

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the worlds Priest; — guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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Literary

Tis pleasant, sure, to see ones name in print. A books a book, although theres nothing in t. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Literary

The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

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Literary

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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. – Paul Robeson

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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

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I doubt whether Cromwell or Milton could have rivaled [William Lloyd] Garrison in this field of quotation; and the power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. – John Jay Chapman

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We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle

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