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«Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.»
Author: Alan Bennett (Actor, Writer) | Keywords: assumed, classic
«A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.»
Author: Carl Van Doren | Keywords: classic, The Classics, To be written
«A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.»
Author: Edith Wharton (Novelist) | Keywords: classic, conformed, conforms, definitions, fits, freshness, irrepressible, The Classics
«A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.»
Author: Italo Calvino (Essayist, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: classic
«In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.»
Author: Lincoln Kirstein (Writer) | About: Anarchy, Democracy | Keywords: anarchy, anxious, aristocratic, classic, compact, compacted, Freedom of expression, promising, traditional
«Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.»
Author: Abraham Maslow (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Economics | Keywords: accepting, actualization, classic, economic, economic theory, impulse, inadequate, including, motivation, revolutionize, revolutionized, revolutionizing, theory-based, theory of
«Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | Keywords: address, agreed, amended, amending, amends, badly, behaved, behave yourself, behaving, brood, brooded, broods, classic, moralist, moralists, most undesirable, muck, mucked, muck about, no-account, remorse, repent, rolling, sentiment, The Task, undesirable, wrongdoing, wrongdoings
«For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, / Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, / Poetic fields encompass me around, / And still I seem to tread on classic ground.»
Author: Joseph Addison (Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman) | Keywords: classic, encompass, encompassing, prospects, ravished, scenes, tread on
«A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: classic, nobodies, nobody, read, Read only, something, The Classics, wants
«A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: classic, praise, The Classics
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