Clifton Fadiman

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.