Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

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

Bottles

Vineyards

Wine

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.

Cheesy

Cooking

Food

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Forget

Good Memories

Memories

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

Fools Day

Funny Inspirational

Humor

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Experience

Mileage

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

Eye

Hiding Something

Men

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

Finding Yourself

Life

Men

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

Helpful

Interesting

Thinking

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

Flesh

Mind

Writing

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

Blood

Names

Wine

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Fiction

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Flesh

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Fools Day

Forget

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Funny Inspirational

Giving

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Guarantees

Helpful

Hiding Something

History

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Imagination

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Journalism

Keys

Life

Littles

May

Memories

Men

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Mind

Mistake

Names

Reading

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Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman

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

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk’s leap toward immortality.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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

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

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

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

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

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