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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
- Leo Rosten
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#Only
#Professional
#Reason
#Writer
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
- Leo Rosten
#Enjoy
#Going
#Least
#Something
#Wrong
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.
- Leo Rosten
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#Educated
#He
#Need
#Understood
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
- Leo Rosten
#Communication
#God
#Me
#Why
#Will
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.
- Leo Rosten
#Grow
#Heart
#Look
#Lost
#Mind
Satire is focused bitterness.
- Leo Rosten
#Bitterness
#Focused
#Satire
Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
- Leo Rosten
#Babies
#Bad
#Dogs
#Man
#Who
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
- Leo Rosten
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#Means
#Them
#Think
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
- Leo Rosten
#Make
#Sense
#Stranger
#Truth Is
#Truth
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
- Leo Rosten
#After
#Conservative
#Dead
#Politics
#Who
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
- Leo Rosten
#Cruel
#Gentleness
#Strength
#Strong
#Who
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
- Leo Rosten
#Communication
#Humor
#Insight
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
- Leo Rosten
#Capable
#Happiness
#Only
#Push
#Which
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
- Leo Rosten
#Capacity
#Confront
#Courage
#Imagined
Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
- Leo Rosten
#Prepared
#Some
#Them
#Things
#Unexpected
We see things as we are, not as they are.
- Leo Rosten
#Brainy
#See
#Things
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
- Leo Rosten
#Business
#First-Rate
#Hire
#People
#Second-Rate
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