Frasi di Clifton Fadiman

“Quando rileggi un classico non si coglie niente di più del libro rispetto ad una precedente lettura; ma vedi in te stesso più di ciò che c'era prima.”

“L'aggettivo è la buccia di banana delle parti del discorso.”

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

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

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

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

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