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Harold Ramis

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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...
HAROLD BLOOM The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
HAROLD BLOOM Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
HAROLD BLOOM But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we h...
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