Clifton Fadiman
Writer
1904-05-15
Quotes by Clifton Fadiman
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Reading to small children is a specialty.
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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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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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Don't be afraid of poetry.
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Don't be afraid of poetry.
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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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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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Reading to small children is a specialty.
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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For most men life is a search for a proper manilla envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Cheese-milk's leap toward immortality.
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Cheese-milks leap toward immortality.
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared. I have never met a miserly wine-lover.
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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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