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Harold Bloom
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How to Read and Why
Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. ... But with this principle, I am close to despair, since you can no more teach someone to be ironic than you can instruct them to become solitary. And yet the loss of irony is the death of reading, and of what had been civilized in our natures.
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The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.
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... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent."
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Harold Bloom
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We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.
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Harold Bloom
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Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.
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Harold Bloom
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Jesus is present only as a supreme representation of suffering and change, one that Shakespeare {in his dangerous era} shrewdly and invariably avoided.
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Harold Bloom
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Hope and joy, however irrational, are stronger than dispair, and ultimately more pernicious.
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Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.
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We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies and all the sorrows of familial and passional life."
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