Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today. Leonard Maltin

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. Ezra Pound

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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. W. E. B. Du Bois

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino

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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain

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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity. Robert Ardrey

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There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. José Ortega y Gasset

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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. Erica Jong

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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze. Orson Welles

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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime. Yelawolf

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Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure. Robert Gottlieb

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A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. Alfred Kazin

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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. Italo Calvino

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A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy. Gina Prince-Bythewood

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Stephen Leacock

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You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade. Woody Allen

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A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration. Jean-Louis Barrault

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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. Helena Bonham Carter

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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The classic literature is always modern. Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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To be a classic, a novel should be original. Ruth Rendell

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A great song will be great forever – it’s timeless and classic in that way. Kacey Musgraves

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Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them. Scott Rudin

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Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat. Greenhaven Press

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Classics can be phenomenal when done right. A simple roast chicken dish could be the best thing you ever eat. Joe Bastianich

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The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child. Lisa See

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Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in. Ned Rorem

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