"The Wire has done what no other television program has come close to achieving—namely, presenting the life of a decaying American city and doing so with the scope and moral vision of great literature... I really wish I had HBO."
"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read."
(Excerpt of a homage to Marcel Proust a year after his death in 1922): "Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Marcel Proust [...], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I've had the leisure to read in In Search of Lost Time, that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss."
— Paul Valery, Proust's In Search of Lost Time has seven volumes and almost three thousand pages.
"To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'."
— @thealmightygod, Twitter account
"[Morgan Freeman] was the narrator in March of the Penguins. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it."
— Roger, American Dad!
"How can they respect my culture if they haven't seen it?"
— Pocahontas, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."
Benoit Blanc: Harlan's detectives, they dig, they rifle and root. Truffle pigs. I anticipate the terminus of Gravity's Rainbow.
Marta Cabrera: Gravity's Rainbow.
Benoit Blanc: It's a novel.
Marta Cabrera: Yeah, I know. I haven't read it though.
Benoit Blanc: Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title. It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law.
Marta Cabrera: Gravity's Rainbow.
Benoit Blanc: It's a novel.
Marta Cabrera: Yeah, I know. I haven't read it though.
Benoit Blanc: Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title. It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law.
A Neapolitan fought fourteen duels to prove that Dante was a greater poet than Ariosto. At his death-bed, his confessor desired him, by way of penance, to acknowledge the superiority of Ariosto. “Father,” answered the dying man, “ to tell the truth, I never read either Dante or Ariosto.”
— "Boston Pilot", 14 March 1857
[Poster for Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter comes up on screen]
Juice: whooooa this one's a classic! i love this movie, y'all gotta see it
Ten: You actually watched this movie?
Juice: oh ABSOLUTELY not
it's just my favorite movie is all
Juice: whooooa this one's a classic! i love this movie, y'all gotta see it
Ten: You actually watched this movie?
Juice: oh ABSOLUTELY not
it's just my favorite movie is all
— 20020, Chapter 5
