Clifton Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, radio and television personality.
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“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.”
“Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.”
“A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.”
“To feel at home, stay at home.”
“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”
“For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed”
“We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”