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 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.
order recollection
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
use answers sculpture
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
children profession
Being a child is in itself a profession.
writing mind flesh
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
art fiction entertainment
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
feelings sense-of-humor ability
What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.