Leo Rosten

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

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"Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined."

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"Truth is stranger than fiction fiction has to make sense."

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

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"Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less."

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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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"First-rate people hire first-rate people second-rate people hire third-rate people."

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"I have admired W. C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby Le Roy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."

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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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"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle."

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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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"Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad."

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

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"The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all."

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