„Klasická literatúra je niečo, čo by chcel mať každý prečítané, ale čo nikto nechce čítať.“
Originál
Definition of a classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in "Disappearance of Literature" http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=TwaSpee.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=52&division=div1, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain's Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194 http://books.google.com/books?id=7etXZ5Q17ngC&pg=PA194
Varianta: A classic – something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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