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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.

Clifton Fadiman

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.

Tags: food

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.

Clifton Fadiman

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.

Tags: books, reading

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

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Tags: enjoyment, pleasure

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Tags: food

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Tags: newspapers, journalism

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Tags: words, language

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Tags: writers, writing

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

Clifton Fadiman

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

Tags: wine, river, human

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.

Tags: man, eye, you