Classics Quotes
Reflections on what makes literature truly last
These quotes explore classics from a literary actor's appreciation of Shakespeare and Chekhov to a candid observation that bestsellers rarely become classics themselves.
In the schools of the Western countries, there is always the subject 'Religion.' The Classics are China's religion.
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When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
Actor Quotes
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
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One quote even treats classics as culturally sacred, comparing Western schools' study of religion to how China's classics function within its own tradition.
