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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
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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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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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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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
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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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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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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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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
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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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Being a child is in itself a profession.
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If you want to feel at home, stay home.
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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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Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
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Wine is poetry in a bottle.
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Wine is a civilizing agent.
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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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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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One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
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