Famous Clifton Fadiman Quotes

  • 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

    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

  • 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

    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

  • Reading to small children is a specialty. – Clifton Fadiman

    Reading to small children is a specialty.– Clifton Fadiman

  • Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. – Clifton Fadiman

    Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.– Clifton Fadiman

  • 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

    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