"The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American."

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Harold Bloom

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“Writerâ€™s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something Iâ€™ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what Iâ€™ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writerâ€™s block is never solved by forcing oneself to â€œwrite through it,â€ because you havenâ€™t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still wonâ€™t work â€“ for you or for the reader.”
“From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.”
“A work of art is a confession.”
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
“Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?”
“It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.”
“Like it or not, war is not always the answer. The better part of wisdom is to stay out.”
“In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.”

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