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No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.
Joseph Epstein
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Joseph Epstein
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 9
Essayist
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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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Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
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If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?
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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
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The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
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Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
Joseph Epstein
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.
Joseph Epstein
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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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.
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We do choose how we shall live
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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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The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
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For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery
Joseph Epstein
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.
Joseph Epstein
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
Joseph Epstein
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
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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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No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
Joseph Epstein
