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The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future. -- Clifton Fadiman
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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The only reason for being young is to outgrow it. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Don't be afraid of poetry. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself. -- Clifton Fadiman
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To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Being a child is in itself a profession. -- Clifton Fadiman
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Wine is a civilizing agent. -- Clifton Fadiman
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We are all citizens of history. -- Clifton Fadiman
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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Reading to small children is a specialty. -- Clifton Fadiman
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If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. -- Clifton Fadiman
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One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best. -- Clifton Fadiman
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There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. -- Clifton Fadiman
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew. -- Clifton Fadiman
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity. -- Clifton Fadiman
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As between mileage and experience choose experience. -- Clifton Fadiman
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. -- Clifton Fadiman
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The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food. -- Clifton Fadiman
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A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover -- Clifton Fadiman
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To feel at home, stay at home. -- Clifton Fadiman
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A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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[Wine is] poetry in a bottle. -- Clifton Fadiman
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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. -- Clifton Fadiman
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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession. -- Clifton Fadiman
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. -- Clifton Fadiman
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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. -- Clifton Fadiman
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I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. -- Clifton Fadiman
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history -- Clifton Fadiman
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One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. -- Clifton Fadiman
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. -- Clifton Fadiman
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Dr. Seuss provided ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole. -- Clifton Fadiman