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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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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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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait
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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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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 a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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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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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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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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What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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