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The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
– Harold Bloom

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  1. I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg. – Ernest Hemingway
  2. You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock. – Harold Bloom
  3. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
  4. We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom
  5. Originality must compound with inheritance. – Harold Bloom
  6. The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. – Harold Bloom
  7. Emily ????inson sublimely unnames even the blanks. – Harold Bloom
  8. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. – Harold Bloom
  9. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. – Harold Bloom
  10. Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. – Harold Bloom
  11. Reviewing bad books is bad for the character -“ WH Auden – Harold Bloom
  12. Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes – Harold Bloom
  13. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
  14. All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life. – Harold Bloom
  15. Harold Bloom weeps for me. – Christian Bauman
  16. We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice. – Harold Bloom
  17. Greatness recognizes greatness, and is shadowed by it. – Harold Bloom
  18. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. – Harold Bloom
  19. There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – Harold Bloom
  20. Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom
  21. Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. – Harold Bloom
  22. Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. – Harold Bloom
  23. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily. – Harold Bloom
  24. A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom
  25. Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human. – Harold Bloom
  26. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. – Harold Bloom
  27. 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. – Harold Bloom
  28. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom
  29. What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. – Harold Bloom
  30. The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters. – Harold Bloom
  31. Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom
  32. Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom
  33. Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
  34. At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom
  35. Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be–to me in all events–a terrible thing without books. – LM Montgomery
  36. One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  37. An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action. – Debasish Mridha
  38. It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way. – Kady Cross
  39. I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them. – Hillary Wen
  40. Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor. – CG Jung

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