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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality. He began his work with the radio, and switched to television later in his career. Wikipedia  

✵ 15. May 1904 – 20. June 1999  •  Other names Clifton Paul Fadiman
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Famous Clifton Fadiman Quotes

“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

Source: "Any Number Can Play," 1957

“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

“Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.”

Clifton Fadiman

Introduction to Unkempt Thoughts

“An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.”

Clifton Fadiman

Introduction to Unkempt Thoughts, St. Martin's Press (1962)

“Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist”

Clifton Fadiman

Introduction to Unkempt Thoughts

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