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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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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."
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"Nothing can come of nothing."
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"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
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"A witty saying proves nothing."
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
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"Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves."
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"Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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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
"I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene."
Progress
"In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read."
Reading
"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."
Fact
"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
"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude."
Strength
"What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era."
People
"What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering."
Literature
"I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States."
Future
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