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.
Clifton Fadiman
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Clifton Fadiman
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.
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Clifton Fadiman
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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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.
Clifton Fadiman
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Fadiman
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.
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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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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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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.
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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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As between mileage and experience choose experience.
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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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.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it ... is the aim of the aphorist.
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
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