02UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
03UndatedBooks act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
05UndatedOne 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 / quote ↗
06UndatedWhen 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
08UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
09UndatedWhen you 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 / quote ↗
12UndatedOne newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
14UndatedThere are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
15UndatedA sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
16UndatedTo take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
17UndatedExperience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
18UndatedFor most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.Clifton Fadiman / quote ↗
