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I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

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Harold Bloom

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Believe, Learn, Nature, Share, Writing

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Shakespeare is universal.

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

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

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

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