Desert Classic

Famous quotes containing the words desert and/or classic:

“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”
—Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)