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Clifton Fadiman
American
Writer
About the author
Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Immortality
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Questions
#Conversation
#Answers
#Sculpture
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Mistakes
#Mind
#Talent
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Work
#Order
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Will
#Thinking
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Ability
#Sense
#Humor
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,
American
Writer
#Eye
#Man
#Experience
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,
American
Writer
#End
#Man
#School
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Experience
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Nothing
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman,
American
Writer
#Life
#Men