"While reading writers of great formulatory power —……" — Joseph Epstein
"While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading."
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46 Quotes by Joseph Epstein
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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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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