Quotes by : Clifton Fadiman

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

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence....

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

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

Don't be afraid of poetry.

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

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

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number....

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

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow....