"People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I"

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Source : "Falstaff for our times". www.theguardian.com. March 5, 1999.

Harold Bloom

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, 'You did it! You showed up! Letâ€™s lie down.' We all lie down and sheâ€™s like, 'How is everybody feeling?' Weâ€™re like, 'Great!' And the teacherâ€™s like, 'Great!' Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early.”
“The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.”
“I love everything about entrepreneurship and about owning your career and doing what you love to do.”

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“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
“Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.”
“My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.”
“There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.”
“You'll wake up on Easter morning, And you'll know that he was there, When you find those choc'late bunnies, That he's hiding ev'rywhere.”

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