When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman
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
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014