Clifton Fadiman citáty

„Když znovu čtete klasickou knihu, nevidíte v ní víc než jste viděli dříve. Vidíte v sobě víc, než tam dříve bylo.“

“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”