Clifton Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, radio and television personality.
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“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.”
Clifton Fadiman
“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.”
“Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.”
“The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.”
“Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality”
“The mama of dada”
“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.”
“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 . . .”
“Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.”
“Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly”