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1. "O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales." ~ Leo Rosten
2. "Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts." ~ Leo Rosten
3. "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 Rosten
4. "I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths.For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave." ~ Leo Rosten
5. "Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all." ~ Leo Rosten
6. "Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them." ~ Leo Rosten
7. "Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious." ~ Leo Rosten
8. "It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes." ~ Leo Rosten
9. "Mr. Kaplan smiled back and answered promptly, "Vell, I´ll tell you about Prazidents United States. Fife Prazidents United States is Abram Lincohen, he vas freeink de neegers; Hodding, Coolitch, Judge Vashington, an´ Banjamin Franklin."Futher encouragement revealed that Mr. Kaplan´s literary Valhalla the "most famous tree American wriders" were Jeck Laundon, Valt Viterman, and the author of "Hawk l. Barry-Feen," one Mock- tvain. Mr. Kaplan took pains to point out that he did not mention Relfvaldo Amerson because "He is a poyet, an´I´m talkink about wriders." ~ Leo Rosten
10. "Vun ting more I should say, so de cless shouldn´t fill too bed about Jake Popper. It´s awreddy nine yiss since he pest avay!""And I didn´t go to de funeral!" On this strange note, Mr. Kaplan took his seat.The class hummed, protesting against this anticlimax which left so much to the imagination."Why you didn´t?" cried Mr. Bloom, with a knowing nod to the Misses Mitnick and Caravello.Mr. Kaplan´s face was a study in sufferance. "Becawss de funeral vas in de meedle of the veek," he sighed. "An´ I said to minesalf, "Keplen, you in America, so tink like de Americans tink!´ So I tought, an´ I didn´t go. Becawss I tought of dat dip American idea, ´Business before pleasure!" ~ Leo Rosten
11. "We see things as we are, not as they are." ~ Leo Rosten
12. "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." ~ Leo Rosten
13. "Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them." ~ Leo Rosten
14. "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." ~ Leo Rosten
15. "First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people." ~ Leo Rosten
16. "Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." ~ Leo Rosten
17. "Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them." ~ Leo Rosten
18. "Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined." ~ Leo Rosten
19. "Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented." ~ Leo Rosten
20. "I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe." ~ Leo Rosten
21. "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
22. "An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church." ~ Leo Rosten
23. "Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad." ~ Leo Rosten
24. "Satire is focused bitterness." ~ Leo Rosten

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