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
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.
order recollection
My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat
use answers sculpture
I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation
gertrude happens things-happen
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
cheesy milk cheese
Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.
american-writer book books-and-reading
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.
absence believe commas forgotten guarantees merely prefer whereas
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.
human mouths savor
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
envelope life manila men proper search themselves
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.