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Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
– Harold Bloom

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  2. Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends. – Harold S Kushner
  3. Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. – Henry James
  4. All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don’t want to know what causes dew. – Stephen Colbert
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  6. Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for the self. – Harold Bloom
  7. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge. – Harold Bloom
  8. The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short. – Ashton Applewhite
  9. Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom
  10. 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
  11. I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint. – DA Paul
  12. She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face. – Amit Kalantri
  13. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
  14. Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  15. People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not. – Douglas Wilson
  16. A circumstance is not easy to come by and when it does, there are causes behind it. Therefore I do those things which bring an end to all the causes. – Dada Bhagwan
  17. Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus – Peter Hubbard
  18. You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness. – Lois McMaster Bujold
  19. Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates. – Richard Brookhiser
  20. 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
  21. We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. – Harold Bloom
  22. Originality must compound with inheritance. – Harold Bloom
  23. The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. – Harold Bloom
  24. Emily ????inson sublimely unnames even the blanks. – Harold Bloom
  25. The inventor knows HOW to borrow. – Harold Bloom
  26. Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider. – Harold Bloom
  27. King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. – Harold Bloom
  28. Shakespeare’s exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment. – Harold Bloom
  29. All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life. – Harold Bloom
  30. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us. – Harold Bloom
  31. There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare. – Harold Bloom
  32. Characters carrying the playwright’s disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden. – Harold Bloom
  33. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily. – Harold Bloom
  34. A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity’s disorders, including the fear of mortality – Harold Bloom
  35. Vision is defined as a program for restoring the human. – Harold Bloom
  36. What Emily ????inson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition. – Harold Bloom
  37. Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth. – Harold Bloom
  38. Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value. – Harold Bloom
  39. Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
  40. At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy. – Harold Bloom

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