Shakespeare is universal.

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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.

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

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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

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