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While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote. -- Mason Cooley
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. -- Franz Kafka
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. -- Stanislaw Lem
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Don Quixote ? I read that every year, as some do the Bible. -- William Faulkner
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. -- Thomas Sydenham
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha -- Miguel de Cervantes
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad. -- George Bernard Shaw
The wind helps me unwind. I make love like Don Quixote windmilled into history. -- Jarod Kintz
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me! -- Simon Bolivar
Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great. -- Dejan Stojanovic
I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York. -- Sal Albanese
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability. -- Martin Amis
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. -- David Berlinski
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. -- W. H. Auden
We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published. -- Jay McInerney
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. -- James Russell Lowell
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. -- Hugh Kingsmill
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it. -- Jay Michaelson
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school. -- Mitch Leigh
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' -- Arthur Smith
My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress? -- Samuel Johnson
I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot. -- Sean William Scott
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way. -- Jonathan Ames
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences. -- Christopher Lee
It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet. -- Ivan Turgenev
Don Quixote was a song for a 1969 Michael Douglas movie called Hail Hero! I wrote the title song for the film and they also used the Don Quixote one I had submitted. -- Gordon Lightfoot
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad. -- George Santayana
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. -- Lord Byron
I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something. -- Dominic Chianese
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young. -- David Guterson
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay. -- Ambrose Bierce
The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary. -- Paul Gray
If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real. -- Mike Klepper
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while they were stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet! -- Thomas Hardy
If you think of all the enduring stories in the world, they're of journeys. Whether it's 'Don Quixote' or 'Ulysses,' there's always this sense of a quest - of a person going away to be tested, and coming back. -- Robyn Davidson
The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills. -- Billy Corgan
In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder. -- John Masefield
A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always dies too soon." "Madam, you must be profoundly in error," said Sir Thomas, "No operatic star has yet died half soon enough for me." -- Thomas Beecham
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. -- Helen Oyeyemi
The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways. -- Henry Fielding
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives. -- Cynthia Ozick
If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules. You've got omniscient narrators lecturing at times to the reader in first person. If you go back to the earliest novels, this is happening to a wild extent, like 'Tristram Shandy' or 'Don Quixote'. -- Jennifer Egan
I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparently internalized the key concepts - but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading 'Don Quixote,' Epictetus, 'The Aeneid,' 'King Lear' and 'Candide,' and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me. -- Daniel S. Loeb

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