Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
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… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“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… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
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