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Clifton Fadiman
Age: 95 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 15
Died: 1999
Died: June 20
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The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
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Wine is a civilizing agent.
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
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Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
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As between mileage and experience choose experience.
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
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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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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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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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One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
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What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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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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To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
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Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
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