You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.


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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, th...
HAROLD BRODKEY
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the acc...
HAROLD BRODKEY
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at pe...
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I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a ...
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and the...
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamilia...
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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.
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St....
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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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...
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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...
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
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Shakespeare is universal.
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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.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overh...
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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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