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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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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

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A book is to me like a hat or coat — a very uncomfortable thing until the newness has been worn off. – Charles B. Fairbanks

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Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

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The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. – Ernest Hemingway

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I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was Aint Nobodys Business. It got me. I thought, I can do this. I decided just like that. No romantic story. – Jerry Leiber

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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