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Clifton Fadiman [1904-1999] American

Rank: 103
Writer, Intellectual

Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.

Friendship, Good, History, Humor, Men, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.	History	101
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.		102
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.		103
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.	Good	104
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.		105
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.	Travel	106
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.		107
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.	Humor	108
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.	Friendship	109
To feel at home, stay at home.		110
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.		111
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.		112
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.	Men	113
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.		114
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.		115
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.		116
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.		117
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.		118
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.		119
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.		120
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.		121
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.		122
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.		123
As between mileage and experience choose experience.		124

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