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From Quotes by Joseph Epstein
- All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly…
- High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else --…
- I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
- What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
- I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
- I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us…
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