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

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.

—Clifton Fadiman

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.

—Clifton Fadiman

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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.

—Clifton Fadiman

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Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

—Lora Leigh in Forbidden Pleasure

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

—Rita Mae Brown

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Freedom lies beyond conformity or rebellion.

—Sam Keen

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