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Quote by Clifton Fadiman
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than yo

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman

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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman

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I… was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments. – David Hume (1712–1776)

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

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