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A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. — Pico Iyer

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it. — William Goldman

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — Augustine Of Hippo

By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book. — Steve Erickson

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas

You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots. — Hank Williams Jr.

("A classic is a book that remains in print" - Mark Van Doren) — Thomas Merton

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway,

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. — Mark Dever

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read — Mark Twain

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I feel the human mind is a jigsaw puzzle that I will never be able to solve. — Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Because people are assholes," said Bear, dutifully keeping his head down. "Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes. — Becky Chambers

'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. — Mark Twain

A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty. — Jorge Luis Borges

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. — Italo Calvino

Not every classic book was the best thing ever. Each book has flaws, and it's up to writers to change things. — Tim Holtorf

Thankfully failure was a better teacher than success — Toni Anderson

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books. — Aman Jassal

It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic. — S.E. Hinton

I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version. — George Kohlman

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans. — Italo Calvino

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin

It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way. — Tony Robbins

I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. — Mario Batali

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett

The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty. — Sinclair Lewis

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