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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discover

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

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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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

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Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. – John Lancaster Spalding

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Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. – Bertrand Russell

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We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers. – Christopher Isherwood

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To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality. – William Plomer

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