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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

Travel, Remember, Country, Foreign

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

- Clifton Fadiman

Milk, Immortality, Toward, Leap

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

- Clifton Fadiman

Memory, Forget, Trivial, Good Memory

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

- Clifton Fadiman

Give, Truths, Kinds, Great Ones

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

- Clifton Fadiman

River, Take, Human History, Savor

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

- Clifton Fadiman

Father, Reach, I Think, Respected

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.

- Clifton Fadiman

Build, Tried, Which, Conversation

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

- Clifton Fadiman

Men, Most, Which, Manila

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

- Clifton Fadiman

Never, Lover, Shared, Wine

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

- Clifton Fadiman

Mind, Making, Mr, Faulkner

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

- Clifton Fadiman

Measure, Number, Longer, Discuss

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

- Clifton Fadiman

Think, I Think, Quote, Amusing

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

- Clifton Fadiman

Including, Itself, Gross, Nourish

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

- Clifton Fadiman

Speech, Banana, Peel, Adjective

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

- Clifton Fadiman

Happen, Making, Very, Slowly

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

- Clifton Fadiman

Humor, Sense Of Humor, Sense, Joke

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

- Clifton Fadiman

Work, Eat, Main, Recollection

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

Classic, See, Before, Did

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

Experience, Particularly, Handshake

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

- Clifton Fadiman

How, High, Knew, High School

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

- Clifton Fadiman

Mind, Making, Very, German

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

- Clifton Fadiman

Experience, Choose, Between, Mileage

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

- Clifton Fadiman

Business, Art, Made, Profession

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