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
funny airplane needs
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either.
idols silence important
The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.
writing choices poor
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
reading operations
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.
mean liquor
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
reason young
The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
gertrude happens things-happen
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
morning book generations
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.
father taken son
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
thinking guarantees may
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
football wine hysteria
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.
balance littles journalism
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
book consciousness film
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
funny-life men finding-yourself
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.