Clifton Fadiman quotes

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. (Clifton Fadiman)
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. View quote
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. View quote
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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. View quote
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. View quote
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. View quote
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. View quote
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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. View quote
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. View quote
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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. View quote
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. (Clifton Fadiman)
If you want to feel at home, stay home. View quote
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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. View quote
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. View quote
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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. View quote
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. View quote
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As between mileage and experience choose experience. View quote
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. View quote
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. View quote
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. View quote
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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. (Clifton Fadiman)
Both the aphorism and the poem channel man's wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed. View quote
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit. View quote
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it ... is the aim of the aphorist. View quote
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. View quote
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