Clifton Fadiman Citas

• Si la comida es el cuerpo de la buena vida, el vino es su alma.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Soul, Body

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• Cuando viajes, recuerda que un país extranjero no está diseñado para que te sientas cómodo. Está diseñado para que su propia gente se sienta cómoda.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• Una botella de vino pide ser compartida; nunca he conocido a un amante del vino tacaño.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Bottles, Vineyards

  Clifton Fadiman, Sam Jay Aaron, Darlene Geis (1977). “Wine Buyers Guide”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• El vino es poesía en una botella.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Bottles

  1985 Of wine. In Manhattan Inc, Jul.

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• Una medida de la amistad no consiste en el número de cosas que los amigos pueden discutir, sino en el número de cosas que ya no necesitan mencionar.

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  Amistad, Verdadero Amigo, Real

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• El hombre que atrae la suerte lleva consigo el imán de la preparación.

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  Men, Preparation, Luck

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• Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

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  Book, Consciousness, Film

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Una buena memoria es la que está entrenada para olvidar lo trivial.

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  Memories, Good Memories, Forget

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

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• When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

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  Arte, Libro, Lectura

  Any Number Can Play "War and Peace, Fifteen Years After" (1957)

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• A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

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  Food, Cheesy, Cooking

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• El insomnio es un alimentador asqueroso. Se alimenta de cualquier tipo de pensamiento, incluso de pensar en no pensar.

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  Sueño, Sueño, Insomnio

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• El sentido del humor es la capacidad de entender un chiste y que el chiste es uno mismo.

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  Funny Inspirational, Humor, Fools Day

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• If you want to feel at home, stay home.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Home, Feels, Stay At Home

  "Enter, conversing".

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• No hay lector tan provinciano como el que sólo lee los libros de esta mañana. Los libros no son panecillos que se devoran cuando están calientes y frescos. Un buen libro conserva su calor interior y calentará a una generación aún no nacida.

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  Morning, Book, Hot

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• Llevarse el vino a la boca es saborear una gota del río de la historia de la humanidad.

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  Wine, Rivers, Vineyards

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• To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Children, Keys, Imagination

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

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• We are all citizens of history.

  Clifton Fadiman

  History, Citizens

  Clifton Fadiman (1957). “Any Number Can Play”, Cleveland : World Publishing Company

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• The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

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  Sarcastic, Mistake, Mind

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• The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

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  Inspiration, Vocabulary, Adjectives

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• Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

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  Book, Dark, Ideas

  Clifton Fadiman (1988). “The lifetime reading plan”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Muhammad Ali: Superman no necesita cinturón de seguridad. Auxiliar de vuelo: Superman tampoco necesita un avión.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Funny, Airplane, Needs

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• There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Escribir, Dos, Dar

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• El queso es el salto de la leche hacia la inmortalidad.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Cheesy, Milk, Cheese

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• [Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

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  Book, Rainy Day, Visits You

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• A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Comida, Hombres, Cocina

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