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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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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature they simply grow taller.
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Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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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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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
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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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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
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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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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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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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