Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

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• A library should be like a pair of open arms.
• My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. .…
• Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.
• Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything…
• Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved
• What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.
• Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really…
• The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From…
• If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.
• Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.
• The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread…
• The problem with death is absence
• There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.
• One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is…
• A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he…
• The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still,…
• Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of…
• One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when…
• Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic…
• Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are…

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