Clifton Fadiman Book Quotations
Clifton Fadiman Quotes about:
Book Quotes from:
- All Book Quotes
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Neil Gaiman
- Mark Twain
- Terry Pratchett
- Henry David Thoreau
- Ray Bradbury
- Stephen King
- Cassandra Clare
- J K Rowling
- John Green
- C S Lewis
- Samuel Johnson
- Alberto Manguel
- William Shakespeare
- Markus Zusak
- Salman Rushdie
- Cornelia Funke
- Daniel Handler
- Jeanette Winterson
- Paul Auster
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Character Quotes
Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.
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Rainy Day Quotes
[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.