Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

    People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    When I have seen fine statues, and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, “When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
    Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)