"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."

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Harold Bloom

#Thinking Quotes #Might Quotes #Contamination Quotes

“You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.”
“There are people in the world for whom "coming along" is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.”
“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”
“I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.”
“Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.”
“Don't be shy. Go for it and ask your crush out.”
“You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.”

Source : Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.395, Simon and Schuster
“Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.”

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