Clifton Fadiman Quotes

Best Quotes by Clifton Fadiman (Top 10)

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
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Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
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Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
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Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
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One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
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As between mileage and experience choose experience.
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To feel at home, stay at home.
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
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