Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Fadiman
Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadimanwas an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth15 May 1904
CountryUnited States of America
cheesy milk cheese
Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
wine blood names
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 status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
drinking wine hobbies
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.
birthday wall years
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, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
eye men hiding-something
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
grandmother kind poet
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, wrote at their worst.
school men trying
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one
dull may milk
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.
wine agents
Wine is a civilizing agent.
writing two giving
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
witty rabbits drs
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
home feels stay-at-home
To feel at home, stay at home.
sarcastic mistake mind
The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
experience mileage
As between mileage and experience choose experience.