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A classic is...

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

Source: Why Read the Classics?, in L'Espresso (Rome, 28 June 1981; repr. in The Literature Machine, 1987). This is one of a series of definitions of a classic in Calvino's essay.
-- Italo Calvino, (Oct 15 1923-1985), Italian journalist, short-story writer, novelist; His whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.


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