| 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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- Leo Rosten |
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| The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. |
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- Leo Rosten |
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| Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer. |
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- Leo Rosten |
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| A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. |
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- Leo Rosten |
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| Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. |
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- Leo Rosten |
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