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.
From Clifton Fadiman
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
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