Clifton Fadiman Quotes - Page 2

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• We are all citizens of history.

  Clifton Fadiman

  History, Citizens

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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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.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Writing, Two, Giving

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• Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Witty, Rabbits, Drs

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• For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Life, Men, Finding Yourself

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• Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
  particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Eye, Men, Hiding Something

  Clifton Fadiman (1962). “Enter, conversing”

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• [Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Rainy Day, Visits You

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• Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Cheesy, Milk, Cheese

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Reading, Operations

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• The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Reason, Young

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• One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Running, Book, Home

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Writing, Mind, Flesh

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton 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.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Birthday, Wall, Years

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

  Clifton Fadiman

  Questions And Answers, Sculpture, Use

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• The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Idols, Silence, Important

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• Wine is a civilizing agent.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Agents

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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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.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Feelings, Sense Of Humor, Ability

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• By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

  Clifton Fadiman

  School, Men, Trying

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• Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

  Clifton Fadiman

  Gertrude, Happens, Things Happen

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• Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Art, Fiction, Entertainment

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• A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Football, Wine, Hysteria

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Mean, Liquor

  1955 Party of One,'From My Notebooks'.

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• Reading to small children is a specialty.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Reading, Small Child

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• Being a child is in itself a profession.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Profession

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

  Clifton Fadiman

  Order, Recollection

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• I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Thinking, Interesting, Helpful

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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