What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.Harold Bloom
I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.
Harold Bloom
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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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
He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and Henry James. There's the endless variety of modes he works in. His style, his stance, his point of view.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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