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Clifton Fadiman

"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before." — Clifton Fadiman
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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
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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." — Clifton Fadiman
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"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking." — Clifton Fadiman
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"To feel at home, stay at home." — Clifton Fadiman
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"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover." — Clifton Fadiman
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"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech." — Clifton Fadiman
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"Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality." — Clifton Fadiman
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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
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"Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep." — Clifton Fadiman
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"The mama of dada" — Clifton Fadiman
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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." — Clifton Fadiman
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"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself." — Clifton Fadiman
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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial." — Clifton Fadiman
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"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality." — Clifton Fadiman
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"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly" — Clifton Fadiman
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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." — Clifton Fadiman
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"We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source." — Clifton Fadiman
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"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history." — Clifton Fadiman
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"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed" — Clifton Fadiman
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"As between mileage and experience choose experience" — Clifton Fadiman
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