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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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one
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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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A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
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The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
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Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly
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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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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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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.
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Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
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Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.