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Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.
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of the classics. Most he finished, some he didn't. He
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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
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Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.
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You don't want to watch classics with me 'cause I'm constantly writing notes.
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The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.
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A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read
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I think the only way to achieve something that's classic is to be in the moment. You don't sit around and think, 'Oh, I hope this is remembered forever!' You just have to be honest, and I think that requires being in the moment.
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My most salient memories
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Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.
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When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.
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Memories, made to last forever.
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People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
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Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.
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I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears.
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If nostalgia holds you hostage,
the ransom is the present.
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
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Vintage was brilliant!
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I never expected that, 20 years later, Chucky would be considered a classic, if I may invoke that term. A golden oldie anyway, something that people still care about 20 years later.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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Awareness, like wine, is always better for the vintage.
--Hugo Anstead
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When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
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If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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Timeless, so age don't count in the booth
When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth
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I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
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I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments.
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I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?
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Memories dancing through ageless ripples of time, waiting to be shared.
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NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
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Elegance is timeless
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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.
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What's old doesn't need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
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Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.
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Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.
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Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you
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I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.
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It has a really timeless feel.
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Blessed is the society that has oldies.
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there is nothing real or true that is timeless
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I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.
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Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine.
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The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never known.
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I'm a nostalgic guy.
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Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
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You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.
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When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!
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Memories don't age
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I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.
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I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.
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Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt
an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late ...
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There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
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I have great memories.
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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.
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Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
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There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
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The present is the key to the past
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A book is like the beauty of a true love, timeless.
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The soul never grows old.
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When a story is old, it is powerful.
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I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
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Old books are like Old friends
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The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
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Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.
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Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.
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These were the kind [of letters] you save, folded into a memory box, to be opened years later with fingers against crackling age, heart pounding with the sick desire to be possessed by memory.
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Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.
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Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!
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I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.
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Old habits die hard,
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You have to fight against being an antique.
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We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.
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I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
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I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
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Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
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Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
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You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
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Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.
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I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way.
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... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
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Life had engraved such beauty in those lines of age and wisdom ...
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There are, I'm depressed to say, many classics I have not yet read and will probably never get around to, though I will not stop short of hospitalizing myself in the attempt.
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My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.
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I find I'm an old soul.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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The years teach us much, which the days never knew.
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I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
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It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic.
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I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.
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Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
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Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[ ... ]
"But I came far. Miles can be years.