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To feel at home, stay at home.
— Clifton Fadiman
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
— Clifton Fadiman
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.
— Clifton Fadiman
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
— Clifton Fadiman
Wine is a civilizing agent.
— Clifton Fadiman
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
— Clifton Fadiman
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
— Clifton Fadiman
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
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
— Clifton Fadiman
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
— Clifton Fadiman
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
— Clifton Fadiman
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
— Clifton Fadiman
Being a child is in itself a profession.
— Clifton Fadiman
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
— Clifton Fadiman
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
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
— Clifton Fadiman
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
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
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
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
— Clifton Fadiman
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
— Clifton Fadiman
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[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.
— Clifton Fadiman
The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
— Clifton Fadiman
We are all citizens of history.
— Clifton Fadiman
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
— Clifton Fadiman
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
— Clifton Fadiman
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
Don't be afraid of poetry.
— Clifton Fadiman
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
— Clifton Fadiman
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
— Clifton Fadiman
Reading to small children is a specialty.
— Clifton Fadiman
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
— Clifton Fadiman
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
— Clifton Fadiman
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
— Clifton Fadiman
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
— Clifton Fadiman
