Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten
Leo Calvin Rostenwas an American humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth11 April 1908
CountryUnited States of America
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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
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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.
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You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. 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.
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If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
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Humor is, I think, the sublets 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
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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter..
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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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.
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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.
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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.