"For me writing is foremost a mode of……" — Joseph Epstein

"For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery"

— Joseph Epstein

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46 Quotes by Joseph Epstein

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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful…
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of…
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes…
What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this…
Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly…
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of…
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence…
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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