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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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My life is a series of things that just happen.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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To be alive at all involves some risk.
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A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career.
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I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyon...
HAROLD BRODKEY
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone i...
HAROLD BRODKEY
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russ...
HAROLD BRODKEY
I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing...
HAROLD BRODKEY
Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
HAROLD BRODKEY
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, th...
HAROLD BRODKEY
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the acc...
HAROLD BRODKEY
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at pe...
HAROLD BRODKEY
I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a ...
HAROLD BRODKEY
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and the...
HAROLD BRODKEY
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamilia...
HAROLD BRODKEY
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were le...
HAROLD BRODKEY
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
HAROLD BRODKEY
It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St....
HAROLD BRODKEY
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
HAROLD BRODKEY
If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretens...
HAROLD BLOOM
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is ...
HAROLD BLOOM
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of...
HAROLD BLOOM
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind...
HAROLD BLOOM
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a...
HAROLD BLOOM
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of...
HAROLD BLOOM
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
HAROLD BLOOM
I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
HAROLD BLOOM
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
HAROLD BLOOM
What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or ...
HAROLD BLOOM
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been in...
HAROLD BLOOM
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that yo...
HAROLD BLOOM
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
HAROLD BLOOM
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, ev...
HAROLD BLOOM
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems t...
HAROLD BLOOM
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the...
HAROLD BLOOM
Shakespeare is universal.
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