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Clifton "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, radio and television personality

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A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

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Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

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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.

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

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

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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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