"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike"

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Source : "Criticism in Society". Interview with Imre Salusinski, 1987.

Harold Bloom

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“Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.”
“I don't believe in God. ...I hope he doesn't hold that against me.”
“Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution”
“The experience curve says that your costs should probably decline by 15% or 20% with every doubling in your experience making a product, approximately how many of them you turn out. It also says that if you have the biggest market share, meaning the most experience of anybody in your competitive set, you should have the lowest costs, and the resultant capability to underprice your competitors, maybe forever. The abiding lesson of the experience curve is that companies need to discipline themselves to keep reducing their costs, year in, year out, if they are to remain competitive.”

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“By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But begin to think of yourself as someone who can learn to think new thoughts when you are frustrated, so that the immobilizing anger can be replaced by more fulfilling emotions. Annoyance, irritation, and disappointment are feelings that you will very likely continue to experience, since the world will never be the way you want it. But anger, that hurtful emotional response to obstacles, can be eliminated.”
“A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.”
“Open this notebookÂ everyÂ day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogolâ€™s advice, write down that today thereâ€™s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.”
“Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. Youâ€™ll make mistakes along the way, but thatâ€™s where growth and forgiveness come in.”

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