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Clifton Paul Fadiman
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About the author
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Life
#Men
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 Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#People
#Country
#Travel
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.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#History
#Wine
To feel at home, stay at home.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Home
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Speech
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 Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Friendship
#Measure
He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Art
#Business
#Profession
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Immortality
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Wine
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.
Clifton Paul Fadiman,
Writer
#Want
#Years
#Old
#Age
#Community
#Son
#Father