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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. ↗

— 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

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#feel #here #i #just #know

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together. ↗

— Santiago Durango

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There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#after #before #far #get #girl

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

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