Clifton Fadiman Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Clifton Fadiman:

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#ac1c6f0b

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#cde967a5

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#bffeb417

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#99f6114f

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#000012f2

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#a9954cf1

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#fdb1b7f9

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#4785f8a2

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#c6cd2823

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#67f0bc8a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#fc9b19f1

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
~Clifton Fadiman


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#aab5ab01

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
~Clifton Fadiman


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#0b38ab46

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#8e747efa

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.
~Clifton Fadiman


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#15da2be5

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
~Clifton Fadiman


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#e515292b

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#d722fe48

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#8603c590

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#1966bdfa

As between mileage and experience choose experience.
~Clifton Fadiman


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#5f75c21f

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
~Clifton Fadiman


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#353ede5d

To feel at home, stay at home.
~Clifton Fadiman


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#d90f6ce5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#3c4548d6

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/clifton-fadiman-quotes/#5c836b3b

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