I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. -Harold Bloom

 

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.


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

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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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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
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The best living poet.

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How To Read and Why.

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It's hard to think of a rival. -Harold Bloom
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I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time.

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