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title: "3 Definition Classic Quotes by 3 authors"
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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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sinclair-lewis/the-author-says-one-character-s-definition-of-a-classic-is-any-book/)

[Sinclair Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sinclair-lewis/)

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> [“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-f-hovde/as-always-with-the-greatest-works-the-novel-is-so-many-sided-that/)

[Carl F. Hovde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-f-hovde/)

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> [Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bennett/definition-of-a-classic-a-book-everyone-is-assumed-to-have-read-and/)

[Alan Bennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bennett/)

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