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As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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Clifton Fadiman
Age: 95 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 15
Died: 1999
Died: June 20
Intellectual
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Brooklyn
New York
Clifton Paul Fadiman
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Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.
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Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
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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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We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
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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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Being a child is in itself a profession.
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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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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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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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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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Wine is a civilizing agent.
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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.
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For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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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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If you want to feel at home, stay home.
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One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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