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Authors & Writing
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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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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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Birthdays
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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
-Clifton Fadiman
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Career, Vocation
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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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Food
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A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
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Memory
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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
-Clifton Fadiman
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Quotations
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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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Reading
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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Wine
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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Words
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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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Books by and about Clifton Fadiman