Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadimanwas an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth15 May 1904
CountryUnited States of America
book character reality
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.
school men trying
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one
dull may milk
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.
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent.
writing two giving
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
children reading specialty
Reading to small children is a specialty.
book dark ideas
Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.
witty rabbits drs
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
home feels stay-at-home
To feel at home, stay at home.
sarcastic mistake mind
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
experience mileage
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
funny-inspirational fools-day april
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.
bananas adjectives speech
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
thinking interesting helpful
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.