Clifton Fadiman
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1904 – 1999
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Who was Clifton Fadiman?
Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.
Famous Quotes:
- Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
- When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
- There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
- For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
- I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
- A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
- 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.
- To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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- Born
- May 15, 1904
Brooklyn - Also known as
- Kip Fadiman
- Clifton P. Fadiman
- Kip
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Annalee Whitmore
(1950 - 1999/06/20) - Pauline Elizabeth Rush
- Annalee Whitmore
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
- Died
- Jun 20, 1999
Sanibel Island
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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