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
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.
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.