Quotes by : Clifton Fadiman

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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