Stephanie > Stephanie's Quotes

“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, Any Number Can Play

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.”
― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin