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5 quotesA book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Books - Classics
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Books - Classics
Carl Van Doren
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Books - Classics
Italo Calvino
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Books - Classics
Alan Bennett
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Books - Classics
Henry Miller
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun