To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It’s designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American critic, lecturer, editor
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Quotations by:
Fadiman, Clifton
When you 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 (1904–1999) American critic, lecturer, editor
Any Number Can Play (1957)
It would seem that in youth we sow our wild oats, in old age our tame anecdotes.
Clifton Fadiman (1904–1999) American critic, lecturer, editor
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Introduction (1985)
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