Famous quotes containing the words classic and/or period:
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“Finally she grew quiet, and after that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage. Hours of this, a period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)