Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  • The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

  • You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  • Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

  • Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  • The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

  • At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

  • In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.

  • I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

  • Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

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