"A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist."

-- Louis Menand

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“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”
“The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.”
“There will be no feeding problems because you can either eat for pleasure, or you don't have to eat at all!”
“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.”
“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
“One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.”

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