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

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

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The object of literature is to make man a wiser and happier being. The poet makes us happy because he tells us how we may become so. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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To literature belongs the mighty privilege of embalming, for all ages, the departed kings of intellect. There they repose within the eternal pyramids of their fame. – Robert Aris Willmott, “Glimpses of the Pageant of Literature,” c.1844

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Literature

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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. – J. R. R. Tolkien

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I get up at sunrise. Im a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then its list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. Its not back-breaking, but its certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous. – Patrick Duffy

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Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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