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"It's hard to think of a rival," — Harold Bloom
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"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
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"The real 'Hamlet' is of course later, first performed in 1600, then performed with revisions in 1601, and eventually included in the First Folio after Shakespeare's death, ... It really has more in common with the two major works it comes between, the two great comedies 'As You Like It' and 'Twelfth Night'." — Harold Bloom
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"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
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"All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is." — Harold Bloom
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"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron." — Harold Bloom
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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 increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic." — Harold Bloom
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"What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era." — Harold Bloom
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American Critic   

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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 genre of literature or it does not exist." — Harold Bloom
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American Critic    Believe   

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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 have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude." — Harold Bloom
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American Critic   

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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 without Stalin." — Harold Bloom
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"I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene." — Harold Bloom
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"Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails." — Harold Bloom
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"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology." — Harold Bloom
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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
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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." — Harold Bloom
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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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American Critic    People   

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"He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and Henry James. There's the endless variety of modes he works in. His style, his stance, his point of view." — Harold Bloom
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"How To Read and Why." — Harold Bloom
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"I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read," — Harold Bloom
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"the best living poet." — Harold Bloom
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