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
wine blood names
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.
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The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent.
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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.
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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
wine bottles
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
wine soul body
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
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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.
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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.