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“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
“Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.”
“Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.”
“Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.”
“Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.”
“The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.”
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“He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
“Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.”
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“Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence.”
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“King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.”
“We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.”
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“Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others.”