American Writer
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
Cliff Fadiman – [Memory]
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
Cliff Fadiman – [Food and Eating]
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Cliff Fadiman – [Vocation]
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Cliff Fadiman – [Quotations]
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Cliff Fadiman – [Writers and Writing]
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
Cliff Fadiman – [Vocabulary]
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Cliff Fadiman – [Writers and Writing]
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
Cliff Fadiman – [Birthdays]
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Cliff Fadiman – [Books and Reading]