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To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
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For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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Born:
May 15, 1904
Died:
June 20, 1999
(aged 95)
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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman was an American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality.
Known for:
The new lifetime reading plan (1960)
Fantasia Mathematica (1958)
The World Treasury of Children's Literature (1984)
The Mathematical Magpie (1962)
Wally the Wordworm (1964)
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