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Quotes by Clifton Fadiman - (5 quotes)

Clifton Fadiman - From the Books category:

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)

Clifton Fadiman - From the Books category:

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)

Clifton Fadiman - From the Drunkenness category:

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. (Clifton Fadiman)

Clifton Fadiman - From the Quotations category:

We prefer to believe 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)

Clifton Fadiman - From the Words category:

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. (Clifton Fadiman)