Cliff Fadiman
» Birthdays » “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.”
» Books and Reading » “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.”
» Food and Eating » “Cheese is milk’s leap toward immortality.”
» Memory » “A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”
» Quotations » “I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”
» Vocabulary » “The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
» Vocation » “For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.”
» Writers and Writing » “Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.”
» Writers and Writing » “There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.”
