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title: "2 Bottle Quotes By Clifton Fadiman"
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> [A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/a-bottle-of-wine-begs-to-be-shared-i-have-never-met-a-miserly-wine/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

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> [Wine is poetry in a bottle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/wine-is-poetry-in-a-bottle/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/to-divide-one-s-life-by-years-is-of-course-to-tumble-into-a-trap-set/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/a-good-memory-is-one-trained-to-forget-the-trivial/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/a-bottle-of-wine-begs-to-be-shared-i-have-never-met-a-miserly-wine/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [ \[Books\] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/books-will-visit-you-at-your-convenience-whether-you-are-lonesome-or/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/name-me-any-liquid-except-our-own-blood-that-flows-more-intimately/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [Wine is a civilizing agent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/wine-is-a-civilizing-agent/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/when-you-read-a-classic-you-do-not-see-more-in-the-book-than-you-did/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/to-take-wine-into-your-mouth-is-to-savor-a-droplet-of-the-river-of/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/the-adjective-is-the-banana-peel-of-the-parts-of-speech/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [“Don't be afraid of poetry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/don-t-be-afraid-of-poetry/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [Being a child is in itself a profession.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/being-a-child-is-in-itself-a-profession/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [ Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book \[ Absalom, Absalom!\] except that it seem to point to the final blowup… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/seriously-i-do-not-know-what-to-say-of-this-book-absalom-absalom/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/a-man-who-is-careful-with-his-palate-is-not-likely-to-be-careless/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [To feel at home, stay at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/to-feel-at-home-stay-at-home/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

> [The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifton-fadiman/the-kind-of-poetry-to-avoid-in-the-pretty-pretty-kind-that-pleased/)

[Clifton Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifton-fadiman/)

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