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Best Quotes by Leo Rosten (Top 10)
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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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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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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
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We see things as we are, not as they are.
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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More Leo Rosten Quotes
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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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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
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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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Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillmentâand is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.
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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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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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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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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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