"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

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Source : Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

Clifton Fadiman

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“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear”
“Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.”
“I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!”
“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Source : "The Crisis of Conservatism" by E. H. H. Green, London: Routledge, (p. 141), 1996.
“I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates”

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