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Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.

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“An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.”

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“Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist”

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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.”

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“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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Clifton Fadiman on William Faulkner

“Apparently the entire population of Jefferson, Mississippi consists of rhetoricians who would blanch at the sight of a simple declarative sentence ... Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book except that it seems to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent.”

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About Clifton Fadiman

Clifton P. "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.