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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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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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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 hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait
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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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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
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If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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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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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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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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Satire is focused bitterness.
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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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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
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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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