Leo Rosten

Polish-American scientist

Lived from: 1908-1997

Category: Science

Quotes: 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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  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 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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