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Clifton Fadiman

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Wine, River, Human

Clifton Fadiman

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

Understand, Sense Of Humor

Clifton Fadiman

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

writers, writing

Clifton Fadiman

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

words, language

Clifton Fadiman

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

travel, travellers

Clifton Fadiman

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

newspapers, journalism

Clifton Fadiman

Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

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

enjoyment, pleasure

Clifton Fadiman

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Clifton Fadiman

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

Clifton Fadiman

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

longfellow, poems, poetry, tennyson