Quotes by Leo Rosten

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• Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

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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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• Extremists think ''communication'' means agreeing with them.

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• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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• Humor is, I think, the sublets 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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• I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

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• If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

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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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• Satire is focused bitterness.

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• The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

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• Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

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• We see things as we are, not as they are.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• destructiveness
• communication
• affectionate
• unbelievable
• professional
• magnificent

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