Harold Bloom Quotes
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
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California is an Italy without its art.
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Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.
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Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.