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Alan Bennett
: Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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Thomas B Aldrich :
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Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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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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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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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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Malcolm S Forbes :
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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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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Henery Miller :
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A man with his belly full of the classics is an enemy of the human race.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Alan Bennett:
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.
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Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Headmaster: Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab prince, with in his belt the short curved, gold sword of the Ashraf descendants of the Prophet, he hoped to pass unnoticed through London. Alas, he was mistaken. "Who am I?" he would cry despairingly. "You are Lawrence of Arabia" passers-by would stop him and say, "And I claim my five pounds."
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Headmaster: They were all socialists. Why is it always the intelligent people who are socialists?
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