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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
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I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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Thinking is harder work than hard work.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
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Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
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