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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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• 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.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Father, Taken, Son

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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.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Grandmother, Kind, Poet

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• One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Balance, Littles, Journalism

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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