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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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.
book character reality
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.
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.
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.
book consciousness film
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
running book home
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.
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.
happen master miss past slowly stein
Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly
art business
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
humor joke
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
envelope life manila men proper search themselves
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
human mouths savor
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.