Leo Rosten Quotes

"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it."
-Leo Rosten in Writing quotes.

"I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!"
-Leo Rosten in Age quotes.

"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."
-Leo Rosten in Courage quotes.

"Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer."
-Leo Rosten in Dogs quotes.

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight."
-Leo Rosten in Humor quotes.

"Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience."
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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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"Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty."
-Leo Rosten in Money quotes.

"If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong."
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"Most men do not 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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"Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them."
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"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all."
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"If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it."
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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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