Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.
As between mileage and experience choose experience. - Clifton Fadiman
As between mileage and experience choose experience.
- 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 … - 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 …
Wine is a civilizing agent. - Clifton Fadiman
Wine is a civilizing agent.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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