Cliff Fadiman

(243 votes)   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.

Cliff Fadiman
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(158 votes)   The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

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(53 votes)   Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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(52 votes)   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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(51 votes)   I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

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(51 votes)   When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

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(46 votes)   Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

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(42 votes)   A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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