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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

by Harold Bloom

bookshelves: shakespeare, lit-crit, currently-reading

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Sep 29, 2019 09:32AM

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”
― Stanley Fish, How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

tags: lanaguage

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“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

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