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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
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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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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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Being a child is in itself a profession.
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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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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 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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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 adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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If you want to feel at home, stay home.
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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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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
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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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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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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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Wine is a civilizing agent.
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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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