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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career.

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[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

Book, Days, Human, Obligation, Rainy Day, Visits You

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.

Art, Book, Classic, Reading, See

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.

Drinking, Hobbies, Love, Neighbor, Wine

We are all citizens of history.

History, Citizens

Wine is a civilizing agent.

Agent, Agents, Civilizing, Wine

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.

Commas, Guarantees, Inverted, May, Think, Thinking

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Forget, Good Memories, Memories, Trained, Trivial

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

Act, Book, Consciousness, Developing, Film, Like

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Course, High, Men, School, Trying

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

Eat, Order, Recollection, Work

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.

Community, Father, Pal, Reach, Son, Taken

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

Gertrude, Happens, Making, Slowly, Stein, Things Happen

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

Fools Day, Funny Inspirational, Humor, Oneself, Sense

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

German, Greatest, Mind, Mistake, Sarcastic, Talent

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Writing, Mind, Flesh, Course, Making

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Envelope, Finding Yourself, Life, Men, Search

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.

Attracts, Luck, Man, Men, Preparation

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Cheese, Cheesy, Immortality, Milk, Towards

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Birthday, Carry, Rings, Timetables, Wall, Years

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

Conversation, Genuine, Questions And Answers, Sculpture, Use

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