Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblatt
Roger Rosenblattis an American writer. He was a long-time essayist for Time magazine and PBS NewsHour. He writes books, and is the Distinguished Professor of English and Writing at Stony Brook University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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My area of the world is the East End. I simply got a better offer from Stony Brook.
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Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present
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No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.
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Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.
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I think there must be something wrong with me as a writer. Because all my friends who are writers find reasons to hate everything about their day. But I just love writing. I love starting the day with language and seeing if I can make something of it.
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Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
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Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.
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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 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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Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.
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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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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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If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.