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Don't be afraid of poetry.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Poems Poetry

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Books Classics

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Books Reading

Reading to small children is a specialty.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Child Children Read Reading

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Comfortable Friendship Memory

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.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Longfellow Poems Poetry Tennyson

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Books Reading

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Enjoyment Pleasure

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Newspapers Journalism

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Travel Travellers

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Words Language

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Writers Writing

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Understand Sense Of Humor

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Wine River Human

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Man Eye You

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

~ Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Fadiman Life Life Is A Search
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