"I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll."

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Harold Bloom

#Kings Quotes #Reading Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“Who wants to wake up in the morning and have to remember that they've got to face Adrien Broner?”
“If you canâ€™t reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, thereâ€™s something wrong with your argument.”
“After a while, you crave pajamas and a shaved head.”

Source : "The 6 Most Crushworthy Things Andrew Garfield--Or, You Know, ANY Man--Has Ever Said" by Megan Angelo, www.glamour.com. July 17, 2012.
“It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.”
“Zen is a special transmission outside the Canonical Scriptures; it does not depend upon texts.”
“The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military. . . . The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.”
“Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.”

Source : Ambrose Philips (1768). “Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems”, p.67
“Patience is the secret to good food.”

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