Roger Rosenblatt Quotes
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Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
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A library should be like a pair of open arms.
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Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.
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The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
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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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Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.
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The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.
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If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
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Blame is especially useful in situations in which there is no apparent villain-those moments that prove, despite our advancement of learning, how susceptible we are to high winds and wet roads.
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Live in the past, but don't remember too much.
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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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Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.
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If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.
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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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What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.
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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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Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.
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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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Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.
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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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Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.
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One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.
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The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.
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If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'
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Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved
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If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.
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When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.
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Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
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The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.
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Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.
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