Clifton Fadiman

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

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