Clifton Fadiman Quotes - Page 1

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Wine is a civilizing agent.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

We are all citizens of history.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

If you want to feel at home, stay home.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Being a child is in itself a profession.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Reading to small children is a specialty.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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 / Intellectual

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 / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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 / Intellectual

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.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

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 / Intellectual

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.

• Clifton Fadiman / Intellectual

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.