For those who read
As one who seldom re-reads even books on my shelf, I like this:
"When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before".
(Clifton Fadiman, US intellectual and author, 1904-99)
he was on a tv show ( yes, there used to be intellectual tv)
and wrote for a magazine i read
he was a genial man
i love re-reading
probably because as a child i lived way out in the country with no library
i had to re-read the books i had - they became friends
there was a magazine in the 60's Saturday Review that was part of my life
i remember him and fellow author wits on a radio program when i was a child which then went on early tv
( yes i was an intellectual child apparently lol)
Wikipedia has an interesting article about him