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Leo C. Rosten

Satire is focused bitterness.

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

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Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

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

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

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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

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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.

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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.

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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. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

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