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"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
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"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."
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"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
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"One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside."
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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."
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"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."
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"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."
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"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."
World
"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron."
Success
"Shakespeare is universal."
Literature
"I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene."
Progress
"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic."
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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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"In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary."
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"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say."
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"Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies."
Art
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