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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.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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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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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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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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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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Thinking is harder work than hard work.
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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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The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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