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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
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Bill Bryson _ In a Sunburned Country
When I say "most people" I mean, of course, me after my first cocktail.
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Steven Johnson _ How We Got to Now: Six
That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we either never altogether assimilate, or that becomes such a given that we are blinded to its idiosyncrasies.
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Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The March of Folly: From Troy
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The Proud Tower: A Portrait of
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
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Barbara W. Tuchman _ The First Salute
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
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