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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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