[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.
As between mileage and experience choose experience. - Clifton Fadiman
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
- Clifton Fadiman
Wine is a civilizing agent. - Clifton Fadiman
Wine is a civilizing agent.
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 … - Clifton Fadiman
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 …
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to tha… - Clifton Fadiman
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to tha…
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. - Clifton Fadiman
For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. - Clifton Fadiman
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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 forgott… - Clifton Fadiman
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 forgott…
Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, bu… - 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, bu…
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. - Clifton Fadiman
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
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