Clifton Fadiman Quotes

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.

One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths and the lesser ones who can only give you themselves.

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.

One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

Don't be afraid of poetry.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

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.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

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.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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.

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.