Clifton Fadiman Quotes

American author, editor, and radio and TV personality (1904–1999)

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

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Alternative Names: Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

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

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

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.