Clifton Fadiman
There are so many ways to say this and I think a lot of folk say it well. Here, the emphasis is on a classic, perhaps because they thought that people may only re-read classics, everything else gets read once and sent on its way?
Perhaps the use of the word classic could be personalised - for each of us a book we choose to re-read could in fact be termed a classic for us?
Whichever books we re-read, we are for sure different people when we come to re-read them. I oftentimes have looked back upon books that captivated me as an older child, or as an adolescent and I wonder what the big draws were. As a young adult some books felt life-defining; whereas to read them now they seem less convincing. The book is word for word the same; it's me who is different.
Rose Rigley, A preserving nature: Family History, 2014
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