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

Other quotes by Clifton Fadiman

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

Category:
Sleep
Read Quote

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

Category:
Books
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Literature
category

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

Category:
Literature

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Literature

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. – Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842

Category:
Literature

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

Category:
Literature

Random Quotes

I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next. – Tom Ogden

Category:
Presentation

It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell

Category:
Ghosts

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. – E. M. Cioran

Category:
Oppression

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. – Bethenny Frankel

Category:
Faith