Clifton Fadiman Quotes

"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Answers, Conversation, Questions, Sculpture)

"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."
- Clifton Fadiman

"The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Talent, Mind, Mistakes)

"My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Work, Order)

"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Thinking, Will)

"A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Humor, Ability, Sense)

"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
(Related: Experience, Eye, Man)

"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: End, Man, School)

"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Experience)

"Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Nothing)

"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
- Clifton Fadiman
(Related: Life, Men)