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“ When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. ”

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Don't be afraid of poetry.

~ Clifton Fadiman

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Reading to small children is a specialty.

~ Clifton Fadiman