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
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.
wine rivers vineyards
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
running book home
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
men culinary palate
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
history citizens
We are all citizens of history.
memories good-memories forget
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
book classic
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
book rainy-day visits-you
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.
dream sleep insomnia
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.