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I thought we got off to a good start. You are always concerned how your team is going to play especially in a big game like this. But we got a lead and a working margin.


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HAROLD BRODKEY I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a ...
HAROLD BRODKEY It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and the...
HAROLD BRODKEY Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamilia...
HAROLD BRODKEY Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were le...
HAROLD BRODKEY Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
HAROLD BRODKEY It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St....
HAROLD BRODKEY Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
HAROLD BRODKEY If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is universal.
HAROLD BLOOM We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage eve...
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