It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid,...
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Coco Chanel
I am not an angel, ' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall...
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Unknown
If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.
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William Shakespeare
Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed.
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Tiffany Madison
More Quotes By Harold Bloom
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.
There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
