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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read a

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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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. – Alan Bennett

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Through all of my youth these books were my companions, and now, as I write these lines, after sixty years, they still look down upon me with their old friendliness. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909

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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. – Harold Bloom

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There are books from which one inhales an exquisite air. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. – Benjamin Franklin

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Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one theyre famous for. – Mary Lou Retton

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. – Susan B. Anthony

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People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. Its very selfish, but its understandable. – Mick Jagger

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