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Brief about Clifton Fadiman: By info that we know Clifton Fadiman was born at 1904-05-15. And also Clifton Fadiman is American Writer.

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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Tags: Gross, Insomnia, Thinking

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Tags: Cheese, Leap, Milk

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

Tags: Humor, Sense, Understand

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

Tags: End, School, Try

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Tags: Experience, Eye, Looks

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

Tags: Build, Questions, Tried

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

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

Tags: Life, Men, Themselves

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Tags: Happen, Making, Slowly

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

Tags: Eat, Order, Work

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

Tags: Greatest, Mind, Mistakes

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.

Tags: Book, Classic, Read

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

Tags: Lover, Shared, Wine

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Tags: Friends, Friendship, Number

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Tags: Cheese, Leap, Toward

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

Tags: Life, Men, Themselves

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

Tags: Art, Business, Profession

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Tags: Banana, Parts, Speech

To feel at home, stay at home.

Tags: Home, Stay

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

Tags: History, Human, Wine
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