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• Passions are fashions. -- Clifton Fadima
• When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.
  You see more in you than there was before. -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play", 1957...
• The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadima
• It is a good idea, particularly when you are doing the eyes, to get the sitter to look at you.
  In this way the portrait will look in every direction and at everyone who looks at it....
• A young man enters the New York branch of Tiffany's on a Friday evening and walks up to a display case full of pearl necklaces.
  He turns to a gorgeous woman, who is obviously windowshopping, looks her straight in the eye and says, "I can tell by your eyes that you really want that necklace....
• He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. --George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superma
• Beware the man who slaps you on the back - he is probably trying to make you cough up something.
• He who adds not to his learning diminishes it. -- The Talmud