Clifton Fadiman Quotes

Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career.

Birth: May 15, 1904 - Death: June 20, 1999

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Topic(s): Humans , Mouths , Wine

Cheese is milk’s leap towards immortality.

Topic(s): Leap , Immortality , Milk

If you want to feel at home, stay home.

Topic(s): Feels , Home , Stay At Home

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

Topic(s): Men , Life , Life Is

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.

Topic(s): Kind , Worst , Poet

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.

Topic(s): May , Food , Cooking

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

Topic(s): Knows , Book , Film

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Topic(s): Experience , Mileage

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

Topic(s): Use , Answers , Conversation

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Topic(s): Kind , Art , Fiction

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

Topic(s): Reading , Operations

Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.

Topic(s): Mean , Liquor

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