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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance Picture Quote #1

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning’s books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key Picture Quote #1

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one’s neighbor Picture Quote #1

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover Picture Quote #1

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To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew Picture Quote #1

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain Picture Quote #1

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source Picture Quote #1

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One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning’s books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) 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 (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one’s neighbor (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) 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 (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain (Clifton Fadiman Quotes) We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source (Clifton Fadiman Quotes)

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