Classic Book Quotes
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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
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
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 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
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
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