Clifton Fadiman Quotes

American - Writer | May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

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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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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 good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

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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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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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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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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

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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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