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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Literature is the question minus the answer. – Roland Barthes

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Literature—our great archive of human expression… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Resisting the Kindle,” The Atlantic, 2009 March 2nd

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The extent of a palace is measured from east to west, or from north to south; but that of a literary work, from the earth to heaven; so that there may be found as much range and power of mind in a few pages… as in a whole epic poem. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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

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