Clifton Fadiman Quotes

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

Clifton Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

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My focus is to grow, have fun, and work with people who inspire me, like Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Jesse Plemons

WorkFocusFunPeopleMeHave Fun

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.

Jenny Zhang

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As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations.

Max Heindel

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Acting is such a strange, vague profession, but my kids know it's hard labour.

Stellan Skarsgard

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You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that's too passive.

Steven Strogatz

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There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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You become friends with someone when you're 16, but by the time you get to 20, you're a completely different person.

Romy Madley Croft

TimeFriendsSomeoneYouPersonGet

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

Mo Yan

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More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

Diane Greene

SeaVisionValueMeThinkMy Own

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

Perry Christie

ExperiencePeopleMePartnershipOut

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

Kenneth L. Pike

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I'll tell you one big misconception. Cops never say 'Freeze!' It might be misinterpreted. They might think you were, like, ordering fries. Or that you had fleas.

Gregory Smith

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