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Clifton Fadiman
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Clifton Fadiman
Age: 95 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 15
Died: 1999
Died: June 20
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Clifton Paul Fadiman
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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 only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
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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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For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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We are all citizens of history.
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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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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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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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Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
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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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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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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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Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
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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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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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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 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.
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