Clifton Fadiman > Quotes

“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.”
― 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

“Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.”
― Clifton Fadiman

“Reading to small children is a specialty.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Clifton Fadiman

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader

“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.”
― Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded

“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

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
― Clifton Fadiman

“Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.”
― Clifton Fadiman

“Cheese...milk's leap toward immmortality...”
― 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.”
― Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader

“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 read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
― Clifton Fadiman

“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history”
― Clifton Fadiman