Leo Rosten Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Leo 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.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#b34d23f0

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#c3663da9

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#111ff238

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#0bf0f904

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#87adf97d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#6cd9d1b5

Satire is focused bitterness.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#186babe8

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#a5cf32d5

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
~Leo Rosten


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#b36e9513

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#b8db5462

Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#242c7937

We see things as we are, not as they are.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#5e91c225

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#2d3dc5c3

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#33f6bf46

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#d840857d

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#8cb52d99

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#207d89ce

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.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#0a65a006

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#01aaee8c

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#acb182a9

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
~Leo Rosten


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/leo-rosten-quotes/#f7aefede

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