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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a… — Paul Auster
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out… — Russell Baker
- I love inventive food, but I want the classic dishes to taste like how I remember them. I get a… — Drew Barrymore
- I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my… — Mario Batali
- Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. — Alan Bennett
- A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W. E. B. Du Bois
- I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach… — Mitch Albom
- People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money.… — Louisa May Alcott
- A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. — Italo Calvino