#classic

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

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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 Paul Fadiman

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Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

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I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock. ↗

— Brett Favre

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does. ↗

— Kathy Valentine

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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ↗

— Mike Figgis

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I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

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One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. ↗

— Harper Lee

#education