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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 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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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.
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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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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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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
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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.
By Clifton Fadiman
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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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
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A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
By Clifton Fadiman