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One 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…
- One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel…
- Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
- I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form…
- I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece…
- I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.
- No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
- One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
- I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market…
- What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
- While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to…
- Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.
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