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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… — Lawrence Clark Powell
- Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a… — John Cage
- How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent. — Lord Dunsany
- Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant:… — Marcus Aurelius
- It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of… — Louis de Bernieres
- When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity,… — Moses Mendelssohn
- He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads… — Jeffrey Eugenides
- The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things… — Alan Bennett
- I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac
- The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman
- Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon… — Susanna Clarke
- Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true… — N.D. Wilson