Clifton Fadiman Quotes
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— Clifton Fadiman
“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
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— Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history
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To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
— Clifton Fadiman
— Clifton Fadiman
— Clifton Fadiman
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
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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
“The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
— Clifton Fadiman
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
— Clifton Fadiman
“Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.”
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“A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”
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“To feel at home, stay at home.”
— Clifton Fadiman
“I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”
— Clifton Fadiman
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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“Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.”
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— Clifton Fadiman
“As between mileage and experience choose experience.”
— Clifton Fadiman
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
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“My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.”
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“If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.”
— Clifton Fadiman
“The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.”
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“We are all citizens of history.”
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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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“One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.”
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— Clifton Fadiman
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
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Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
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— Clifton Fadiman
“The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.”
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
— Clifton Fadiman
— Clifton Fadiman
“I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.”
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Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
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“Being a child is in itself a profession.”
— Clifton Fadiman
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