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Clifton Fadiman
Age: 95 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 15
Died: 1999
Died: June 20
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Brooklyn
New York
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I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
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One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
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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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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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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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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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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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Wine is a civilizing agent.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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