Clifton Fadiman
6 quotations
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.