John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E.H. Harriman. "I have all the money I want," Muir explained, "and he hasn't.

About Clifton Fadiman

Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.

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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.

—Clifton Fadiman

Cheese—milk's leap toward immortality.

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

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

—Deb Caletti in The Six Rules of Maybe

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When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing—nothing.

—Francis of Assisi

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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. Shes the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

—Iris Murdoch

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