"In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation."

-- Zachary Lazar

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Way Quotes

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...”
“Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.”
“Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.”
“Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.”
“Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.”
“We can treat human responses to cognitions as involving law-like connections grounded on free choices which show themselves in our character.”
“Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.”

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