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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american writer Clifton Fadiman on topics like life, proper, search

  • A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

    — Clifton Fadiman on memory
    12
  • 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.

    — Clifton Fadiman on reading
    2
  • The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

    — Clifton Fadiman on words
    1
  • I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

    — Clifton Fadiman on answers
    1
  • 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 on authors
    1
  • For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

    — Clifton Fadiman on career
    1
  • A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

    — Clifton Fadiman on food
    1
  • Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

    — Clifton Fadiman on authors
    1
  • To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

    — Clifton Fadiman on wine
    0
  • The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

    — Clifton Fadiman on german
    0
  • 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 on birthdays
    0
  • For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

    — Clifton Fadiman on envelope
    0
  • About Clifton Fadiman

    Name Clifton Fadiman
    Quotes 17 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Writer
    Birthday October 16
    About Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.
    Top topics life, proper, search, filed, authors
  • Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

    — Clifton Fadiman on gross
    0
  • By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

    — Clifton Fadiman on educated
    0
  • I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

    — Clifton Fadiman on quotations
    0
  • My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

    — Clifton Fadiman on eat
    0
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  • As between mileage and experience choose experience.

    — Clifton Fadiman on choose
    0
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