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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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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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Literary
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This lifes dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye. – William Blake

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Literary

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

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Literary

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Literary

If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one —
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds. – Hindu Spiritual

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Literary

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A wise mans day is worth a fools life. – Arabic Proverb

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Wealth

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. – Koichi Tanaka

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Learning

Im really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! – Lyle Lovett

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famous

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful. – Source Unknown

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Charisma