Clifton Fadiman

Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.

Quotes

• 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.
  • "Any Number Can Play," 1957

• An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
  • Introduction to Unkempt Thoughts, St. Martin's Press (1962)

• Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist
  • Introduction to Unkempt Thoughts

• Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
  • Introduction to Unkempt Thoughts