"We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find."

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Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

Harold Bloom

“When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.”
“I am ridiculously high-maintenance.”
“I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.”

Source : "Victoria Wood recalls a historic day for Manchester music". Interview with David Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2011.
“New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been positioning himself to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Hillary once developed a program to deliver rural healthcare, while de Blasio once dropped a groundhog on its head.”
“Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.”
“Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.”
“I'd let my golden chances pass me by.”
“The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.”

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