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Mark Twain
: A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Washington Irving :
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The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
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Robertson Davies :
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
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My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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George Steiner :
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We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
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Walter Lippmann :
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Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.
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Mary Mccarthy :
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A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
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Ezra Pound :
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Italo Calvino :
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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Carl Van Doren :
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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Henry Miller :
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
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