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The Classics
«When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before»
Author: Cliff Fadiman
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
classic, reread, rereading, There was, the book, The Classics
«What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Generations
| Keywords:
author, classic, continuing, Great A, so-called, The Classics
«Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia. And only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!»
Author: The Princess Bride
| Keywords:
Against A, Asia, best-known, blundered, blundering, blunders, classic, famous, fell, go in, involved, one line, On the Line, Sicilian, slightly, The Classics, victim, well known
«Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
A.D., ad agency, agencies, repositories, repository, The Classics
«The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
authorities, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, checking, classics, degrade, free expression, preventing, The Classics
