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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#i #literary #say #states #studies

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

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#been #diamond #ever #family #going

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#action hero #hero #i #me #play

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#criticism #every #i #i always #know

I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#because #contamination #freud #i #i think

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#because #being #children #development #does

I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#being #big #black #children #clips

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concentrate #feel #i #individuals #intimately

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#been #choose #chose #culture #early