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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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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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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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"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."
Sympathy
"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent."
World
"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
Reading
"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
"I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States."
Future
"Shakespeare is universal."
Literature
"No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem."
Literature
"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology."
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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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