Quotes of Leo C. Rosten - somelinesforyou

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved… ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved… ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved… ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Satire is focused bitterness. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ”

- Leo C. Rosten

“ Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. ”

- Leo C. Rosten
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