Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

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One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

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There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

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Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.

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Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

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The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

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For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.

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Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

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A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

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Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are alsopracticed in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death--that is, they attempt suicide--twice as often as men, though men are more "successful" because they use surer weapons, like guns.

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Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

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Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting.... Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun — he is your friend.

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Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

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Grief. The state of mind brought about when love, having lost to death, learns to breathe beside it.

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The past is always dozing in the ice, waiting to alter the present.

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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

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Never think on vacation. Something odd happens to the mind when it is on holiday.

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Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

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If you want to keep a man honest, never call him a liar.

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Never go to a cocktail party, and, in any case, do not stay more than 20 minutes.

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