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The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation. -- Clifton Fadiman
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future. -- Clifton Fadiman
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
The only reason for being young is to outgrow it. -- Clifton Fadiman
Don't be afraid of poetry. -- Clifton Fadiman
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. -- Clifton Fadiman
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. -- Clifton Fadiman
Muhammad Ali: Superman Don't need no seat belt. Flight Attendant: Superman Don't need no airplane, either. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
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
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
Being a child is in itself a profession. -- Clifton Fadiman
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. -- Clifton Fadiman
Wine is a civilizing agent. -- Clifton Fadiman
We are all citizens of history. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
Reading to small children is a specialty. -- Clifton Fadiman
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. -- Clifton Fadiman
Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being. -- Clifton Fadiman
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. -- Clifton Fadiman
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. -- Clifton Fadiman
One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. -- Clifton Fadiman
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew. -- Clifton Fadiman
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
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
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity. -- Clifton Fadiman
As between mileage and experience choose experience. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
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
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover -- Clifton Fadiman
To feel at home, stay at home. -- Clifton Fadiman
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
[Wine is] poetry in a bottle. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
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
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. -- Clifton Fadiman
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession. -- Clifton Fadiman
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. -- Clifton Fadiman
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
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. -- Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history -- Clifton Fadiman
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance. -- Clifton Fadiman
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. -- Clifton Fadiman
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