Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved — Roger Rosenblatt Direction 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 Add 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
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
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 Back Copy Share Image
If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. — Roger Rosenblatt Adjectives 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 About 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 Actual 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions… — Roger Rosenblatt Beautiful Copy Share Image
One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize… — Roger Rosenblatt Death Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Attached Copy Share Image
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas… — Roger Rosenblatt Anticipation Copy Share Image
Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To… — Roger Rosenblatt Bombs Copy Share Image
For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is… — Roger Rosenblatt Battle Copy Share Image
If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the… — Roger Rosenblatt Actors Copy Share Image
If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first… — Roger Rosenblatt Being Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I… — Roger Rosenblatt Counts Copy Share Image
If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God… — Roger Rosenblatt Believe Copy Share Image
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