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Clifton Fadiman
Age: 95 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 15
Died: 1999
Died: June 20
Intellectual
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There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
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Being a child is in itself a profession.
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
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Wine is a civilizing agent.
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Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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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.
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The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
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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.
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Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
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Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
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We are all citizens of history.
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