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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

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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

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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

Topics: According Alive Author Brief Burning Candle Certainly Characters Development Don Quixote Elizabeth Fiction Fictional Grows Invention Lives May Me More Our Our Lives Out Outlive Own Quixote Sharp Simply Sun Think Will You I Think

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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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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

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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

Topics: Achieve Always Don Quixote Great Hope Human Idealism Man Play Quixote Role Shows Some Something Think Wanted Way I Think

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The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.

~Elif Batuman

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

~George Bernard Shaw

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