"We use books like mirrors, gazing into them……" — Joseph Epstein

"We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves."

— 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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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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