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Classics Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
- Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get…
- A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
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- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.… — Oscar Wilde
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — Oscar Wilde
- Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the… — Liev Schreiber
- With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real… — Brian Setzer
- Classics postures, when practiced with discrimination and awareness, bring the body, mind, and consciousness into a single, harmonious whole. — B.K.S. Iyengar
- It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places,… — Elinor Lipman
- My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because… — Vivienne Westwood