"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."

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Harold Bloom

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Hard work has paid off a whole lot.”
“Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.”
“One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.”
“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'”
“Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles”
“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
“It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.”

Source : "A Double Take on Early Christianity". Interview with Mike Aquilina, touchstonemag.com.

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