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Quote by Clifton Fadiman
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in wh

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman

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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. – Clifton Fadiman

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Literature
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman

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Sleep
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman

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Wine
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To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying “Amen” to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Homosexuality

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. – Hart Crane

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Homosexuality

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because Id have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve… If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—Id be taking out ads. – Henry Rollins

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Homosexuality

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. – Gore Vidal (1925–2012)

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Homosexuality

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For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin. – Frederick W. Faber

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Presents, I often say, endear absents. – Charles Lamb

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Gifts

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. Thats all any of us can hope for. – April Winchell

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. – Carl Sagan

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Death