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“I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.”
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
“A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.”
― How to Read a Book
― How to Read a Book
“All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.”
― Sesame and Lilies
― Sesame and Lilies
“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.”
― Any Number Can Play
― Any Number Can Play
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