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Wendy Lesser

"The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity."

Source : Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.98, Macmillan

Wendy Lesser

#Self Quotes #Voice Quotes #Greek Quotes

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