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Date of Birth
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15-May-1904
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Place of Birth
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Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Kip Fadiman, Clifton P. Fadiman, Kip, Clifton C. Fadiman, Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman
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Profession
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Writer, Author, Editing, Intellectual, Actor
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Quotes
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- Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
- 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.
- To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
- 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.
- I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
- There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
- 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 good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
- For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.
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