"A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality."

Fadiman, Clifton · Food and Eating · 2 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15261/">A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/food_and_eating/">Food and Eating</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25956/">A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/memory/">Memory</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing."

Fadiman, Clifton · Quotations · 2 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33437/">I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/quotations/">Quotations</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4338/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/birthdays/">Birthdays</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/4609/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/books_-_reading/">Books - Reading</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40881/">The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/vocabulary/">Vocabulary</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40892/">For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/vocation/">Vocation</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42662/">Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/writers_and_writing/">Writers and Writing</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42663/">There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/writers_and_writing/">Writers and Writing</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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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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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/43113/">To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2383/">Fadiman, Clifton</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/wine/">Wine</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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