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Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. - Leo Rosten Quotes

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

American Novelist

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. - Leo Rosten Quotes

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Writers And Writing

Extremists think ''communication'' means agreeing with them. - Leo Rosten Quotes

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

[In his authoritative book] The Joys of Yiddish, ... an excellent and praiseworthy housewife. - Leo Rosten Quotes

[In his authoritative book] The Joys of Yiddish, ... an excellent and praiseworthy housewife.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten Quotes

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

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. - Leo Rosten Quotes

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.

Advice American Novelist

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. - Leo Rosten Quotes

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

American Novelist

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. - Leo Rosten Quotes

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

American Novelist Brains

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. - Leo Rosten Quotes

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.

American Novelist Communication Writers And Writing

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. 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. - Leo Rosten Quotes

You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. 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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