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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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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference. – Anatole France

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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. – Sarah Orne Jewett, letter to Willa Cather

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I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart. – Richard Livingstone

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