"Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change."

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Source : "The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages". Book by Harold Bloom, 1994.

Harold Bloom

#Finals Quotes #May Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”

Source : The Observer, January 11, 1931.
“I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.”
“When you can make it this simple, though, just do the right thing. Even if you could get away with less. Even when other people are doing the wrong thing. Even though the wrong thing seems like no big deal.”
“The most powerful weapon is hope.”

Source : Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.171, Pan Macmillan
“Rice is the best, the most nutritive and unquestionably the most widespread staple in the world.”
“Donâ€™t put clothes on food. Itâ€™s supposed to be naked.”
“She commands who is blest with indifference.”
“If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.”

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