Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved — Roger Rosenblatt Direction Copy Share Image
“I'm going to kill Fairy Tale Dora and my little dog too.” — Roger Rosenblatt Fairy tale Copy Share Image
Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better. — Roger Rosenblatt Age Copy Share Image
Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing. — Roger Rosenblatt Dress Copy Share Image
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. — Roger Rosenblatt Being alone Copy Share Image
Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. — Roger Rosenblatt Brain Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal. — Roger Rosenblatt Animal Copy Share Image
Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian… — Roger Rosenblatt Belief Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning… — Roger Rosenblatt Bread Copy Share Image
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side,… — Roger Rosenblatt Arithmetic Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Autobiography Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, I am sure, a calm, quiet place awaits me where I may do something worthwhile again. Another island, perhaps. Or a… — Roger Rosenblatt Hope Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Architecture Copy Share Image
Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own… — Roger Rosenblatt Bears Copy Share Image
My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean… — Roger Rosenblatt Amendment Copy Share Image
Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no… — Roger Rosenblatt Business Copy Share Image
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt Absolutes Copy Share Image
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster. — Roger Rosenblatt Inspirational Copy Share Image
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Essay writing Copy Share Image
Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you. — Roger Rosenblatt Death Copy Share Image
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt Change Copy Share Image
“Male and Female Compatibility Rules: a. She's right. b. He's really thinking about nothing. Really.” — Roger Rosenblatt Compatibility Copy Share Image
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. — Roger Rosenblatt Business Copy Share Image
“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past… — Roger Rosenblatt Books Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Books Copy Share Image
Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how… — Roger Rosenblatt Advancement Copy Share Image
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