Quote by Alan Bennett
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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A house without books is like a room without windows. – Heinrich Mann

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All literature is political. – LeVar Burton

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Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity. – George Steiner

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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command. – Francesco Petrarch

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College is the longest vacation you will ever take. – Dan Indante and Karl Marks

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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. – Jaron Lanier

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt

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When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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