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.

Harold Bloom

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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 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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  • Best
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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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• No one wears high heels all day, every day.

  

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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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• It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.

  

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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.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Different
  • Art
  • Death