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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

«A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | Keywords: trained, trivial
«My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.»
Author: Clifton Fadiman (Author, Editor, Host) | Keywords: My Son, pal, pals
«Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.»
«The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.»
«Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality»
«The mama of dada»
«When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.»
«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 . . .»
«Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality.»
«Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly»

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