“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”
Mark Twain
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“Inquiry not only begins with wonder, but usually ends with it also.”
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Mortimer Adler
“Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.”
Alan Bennett
“When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.”
Clifton Fadiman
“A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.”
Carl Van Doren
“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”
Cliff Fadiman
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