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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Forget Good Good Memory Memory Trained Trivial

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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

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Topics: About Any Gross Including Insomnia Itself Kind Nourish Thinking Will

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Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Cheese Immortality Leap Milk Toward

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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Adjective Banana Parts Peel Speech

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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Amusing Feel Helpful Interesting Must Quote Think Whenever I Think

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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.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Comfortable Country Designed Foreign Foreign Country Make Own People Remember Travel You

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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 Fadiman

Topics: Before Book Classic Did More Re-Read See Than You

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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: History Human Human History Mouths Our River Savor Take Wine

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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Adds Experience Eye Firm Handshake He Hiding Looks Man Particularly Something Straight Teaches Who You

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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

~Clifton Fadiman

Topics: Envelope Get Life Life Is A Manila Men Most Proper Search Themselves Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 15th, 1904

Died: June 20th, 1999

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