"Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?"

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Source : "Why read this?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2000.

Harold Bloom

#Information Quotes #Found Quotes

“No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.”
“I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.”
“Youâ€™ll find your one-in-a-million. But youâ€™re sharp enough to know thereâ€™s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.”
“The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.”
“They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.”

Source : David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan
“Switch if you have to! It's not the mismatch that beats you, it's the open shot!”
“I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.”
“I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.”

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