Quotes of Clifton Fadiman - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Don't be afraid of poetry. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ When you reread 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

“ When you reread 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

“ Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ 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… ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ 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… ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ There 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

“ A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ To feel at home, stay at home. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ To feel at home, stay at home. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Cheese — milk's leap forward to immortality. ”

- Clifton Fadiman

“ Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. ”

- Clifton Fadiman
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