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  1. Douglas Preston _ Brimstone

    There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.
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  2. Harold Bloom _ The Anatomy of Influence:

    Consciousness is the materia poetica that Shakespeare sculpts as Michelangelo sculpts marble. We feel the consciousness of Hamlet or Iago, and our own consciousness strangely expands.
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  3. William Allingham _ Blackberries

    Not like would I write,Not like if I might,Not like at his best,Not like or the rest,Like myself, however small,Like myself, or not at all.
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  4. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    ... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind {the male and female sides of his mind} equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy.
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  5. Virginia Woolf _ To the Lighthouse

    If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
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  6. Vladimir Nabokov _ Lolita

    I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never shall we find the good king banging his tankard in high revelry, all woes forgotten, at a jolly reunion with all three daughters and their lapdogs. Never will Emma rally, revived by the sympathetic salts in Flaubert's father's timely tear. Whatever evolution this or that popular character has gone through between the book covers, his fate is fixed in our minds, and, similarly, we expect our friends to follow this or that logical and conventional pattern we have fixed for them.
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  7. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age {just two months older than Shakespeare}, had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work.
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  8. C.P. Snow _ Variety of Men

    One day at Fenner's {the university cricket ground at Cambridge}, just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking about Einstein. Hardy had met him several times, and I had recently returned from visiting him. Hardy was saying that in his lifetime there had only been two men in the world, in all the fields of human achievement, science, literature, politics, anything you like, who qualified for the Bradman class. For those not familiar with cricket, or with Hardy's personal idiom, I ought to mention that "the Bradman class" denoted the highest kind of excellence: it would include Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Newton, Archimedes, and maybe a dozen others. Well, said Hardy, there had only been two additions in his lifetime. One was Lenin and the other Einstein.
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  9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Uncle's Dream

    Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?
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  10. L.M. Montgomery _ Emily Climbs

    Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. {90-91}
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  11. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    {...}we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don't really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.
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  12. Bill Bryson _ Shakespeare: The World as

    Shakespeare 'never owned a book,' a writer for the New York Times gravely informed readers in one doubting article in 2002. The statement cannot actually be refuted, for we know nothing about his incidental possessions. But the writer might just as well have suggested that Shakespeare never owned a pair of shoes or pants. For all the evidence tells us, he spent his life naked from the waist down, as well as bookless, but it is probably that what is lacking is the evidence, not the apparel or the books.
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