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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious
Joseph Epstein
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Joseph Epstein
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 9
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My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
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Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.
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I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.
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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
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That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
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We do choose how we shall live
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The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
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I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.
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