When you re-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 FadimanCheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton FadimanThe kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
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Reading to small children is a specialty.
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Don't be afraid of poetry.
Clifton FadimanSocrates 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.
Clifton FadimanA bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
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