"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. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep readingâ€¦is the search for a difficult pleasure."

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Source : "Tarkan Q & A". Tarkan Translations, tarkantr.blogspot.com. 2003.

Harold Bloom

#Reading Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Self Quotes

“Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance.”

Source : "'You and Your Research' - 1986 Speech by Dr. Richard W. Hamming". www.valueinvestingworld.com. September 21, 2009.
“You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and youâ€™re like an immigrant to your own world. You donâ€™t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.”
“...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful, with every barrier that is withdrawn.”

Source : "Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science". "Nature", No. 1506, Vol. 58, (p. 438), September 8, 1898.
“Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.”
“Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..”
“There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
“I still think most of my success came from the audience's reaction to me. It's weird when that happens but a lot of it came from what I did inside the ring.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!”

Source : "Muse flash". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2003.

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