Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

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when a book becomes a classic, I think the reason it becomes a classic is when it touches people's lives, and they find it to be important. With this quote, Ryszard Kapuscinski shows that one of the reasons why a book becomes a classic is because it touches someone's life, and they feel like they can't live without it.

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