->''"''Series/TheWire'' 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."''
-->-- '''Website/TheOnion''', [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/tv-critics-admit-to-never-having-watched-the-wire,5990/ "TV Critics Admit to Never Having Watched The Wire"]]

->''"'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read."''
-->-- '''Creator/MarkTwain'''

->(Excerpt of [[StealthInsult a homage]] to Creator/MarcelProust a year after his death in 1922): ''"Although I hardly know a single volume of the great work of Creator/MarcelProust [...], I am nevertheless keenly aware, from the little I've had the leisure to read in ''[[DoorStopper In Search of Lost Time]]'', that literature has just experienced an exceptional loss."''
-->-- '''Paul Valery''', Proust's ''[[LongRunner 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''', Website/{{Twitter}} account

->''"[Creator/MorganFreeman] was the narrator in ''Film/MarchOfThePenguins''. Powerful, powerful piece of cinema. Never saw it."''
-->-- '''Roger''', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''

->''"How can they respect my culture if they haven't seen it?"''
-->-- '''Pocahontas''', ''WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld''

->''"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."''
-->-- '''Creator/WilliamGoldman''', ''Literature/ThePrincessBride''

->'''Benoit Blanc:''' Harlan's detectives, they dig, they rifle and root. Truffle pigs. I anticipate the terminus of ''Literature/GravitysRainbow''.\\
'''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.
-->-- ''Film/KnivesOut''

->''A Neapolitan fought fourteen duels to prove that [[Creator/DanteAlighieri 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", [[https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=bpilott18570314-01.2.38&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- 14 March 1857]]

->''[Poster for ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter'' 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
-->-- ''WebOriginal/TwentyThousandTwenty'', Chapter 5
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