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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
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"Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span."

"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come."

"Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know."
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"The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves."


"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student."


"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives."


"When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect."


"We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background."


"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."


"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem."
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