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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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Alan Bennett:
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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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W E B Du Bois:
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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
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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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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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Carl Van Doren:
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
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There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset:
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There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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Edmond and Jules De Goncourt:
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Thomas Hobbes:
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
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Restyling the classic Airstream trailer
In this low-key, image-packed talk from 2002, designer Christopher C. Deam talks about his makeover of an American classic: the Airstream travel trailer.
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