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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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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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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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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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For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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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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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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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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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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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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Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
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