Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

About Clifton Fadiman:

Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.
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Reading to small children is a specialty.

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Don't be afraid of poetry.

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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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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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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

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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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As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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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.

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To feel at home, stay at 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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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

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

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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

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Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

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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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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameClifton Fadiman
  • DescriptionAMerican editor
  • BornMay 15, 1904
  • DiedJune 20, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Presenter; Author; Journalist; Radio Host