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

Clifton Fadiman
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More Quotes By Clifton Fadiman
  1. Don't be afraid of poetry.

  2. 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.

  3. Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

  4. Reading to small children is a specialty.

  5. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

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