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I won't say he [Shakespeare] 'invented' us, because journalists perpetually misunderstand me on that. I'll put it more simply: he contains us. Our ways of thinking and feeling-about ourselves, those we love, those we hate, those we realize are hopelessly 'other' to us-are more shaped by Shakespeare than they are by the experience of our own lives.

Harold Bloom
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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

- Harold Bloom

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

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The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

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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…

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We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

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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;…

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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism wi…

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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

- Harold Bloom
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