Clifton Fadiman Quotes - Page 3

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• Reading to small children is a specialty.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Reading, Small Child

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• Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

  Clifton Fadiman

  Gertrude, Happens, Things Happen

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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• Being a child is in itself a profession.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Profession

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Idols, Silence, Important

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