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

Clifton Fadiman
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  1. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Unknown

  2. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. - Nicholas Sparks

  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

  4. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

  5. It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.... - Henry Rollins

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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