Literature is achieved anxiety. - Harold Bloom

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At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.

Harold Bloom

Literature is achieved anxiety.

Anxiety, Literature, Achieved

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Hamlet, Kiekegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas
riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

Irony, Jesus, Kiekegaard, Repetition

Shakespeare is universal.

Shakespeare, Universal

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

Easier, Everyone, Morality, Pleasure, Practiced, Precisely

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Fully, Hope, Read, Strangely

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

Ideology, Judgment, Read, Service

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Jonathan Kozol

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

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Seth Godin

If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

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Charles Dickens

Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.

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Bob McDonnell

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

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