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
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By the end of high school I was not an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
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When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.