All Clifton Fadiman Quotes
- To feel at home, stay at home. Feel
- Wine is poetry in a bottle. Bottle
- If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. Body
- To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Droplet
- The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. German
- As between mileage and experience choose experience. Choose
- A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. Begs
- A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. Ability
- When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was… Book
- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. Adjective
- I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. Allusion
- There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. Give
- Wine is a civilizing agent. Agent
- Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our… Any
- The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor. Drinking
- For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Envelope
- A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial. Forget
- 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… Annual
- To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are… All
- 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 best,… Avoid
- Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of… Absalom
- By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one Become One
- A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. Cheese
- My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat Eat
- I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation Answers
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