87 Quotes by Clifton Fadiman

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

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

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

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.

Miss Stein was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.