"I know how deeply slothful I am." — Joseph Epstein
"I know how deeply slothful I am."
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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…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of…
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this…
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly…
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself…
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain…
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own…
— Dave Barry
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The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind…
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply…
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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's…
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that…
— Theodore Bikel
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Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a…
— Alain de Botton
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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel…
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