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Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: May 15, 1904 Date of Death: June 20, 1999 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Clifton Fadiman Related Authors: Mason Cooley H. L. Mencken Eric Hoffer Elbert Hubbard Oliver Wendell Holmes Marilyn vos Savant Bill James Jeff Long |
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Fadiman As between mileage and experience choose experience. Clifton Fadiman By the end of high school I was not an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. Clifton Fadiman By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one. Clifton Fadiman Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality. Clifton Fadiman 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 For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. Clifton Fadiman Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. Clifton Fadiman I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation. Clifton Fadiman Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. Clifton Fadiman My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat. Clifton Fadiman The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest. 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 was before. Clifton Fadiman |
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