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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike — and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two — are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

— Harold Bloom Interview in Criticism in Society (1987)

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Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.

The Anatomy of Influence (2011)

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I must say these Oxfordians are very virulent and, forgive me for saying it, very crazy people indeed.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

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.

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