We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely … - Harold Bloom

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General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Harold Bloom

We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

Space, People, Sorrow, Sorrows, Familial, Diminish

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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.

Irony, Jesus, Kiekegaard, Repetition

Shakespeare is universal.

Shakespeare, Universal

The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier.

Easier, Everyone, Morality, Pleasure, Practiced, Precisely

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Fully, Hope, Read, Strangely

To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all.

Ideology, Judgment, Read, Service