Joseph Epstein Quotes - Page 3

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• A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

  Joseph Epstein

  Magazines, Want, Mail

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• I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

  Joseph Epstein

  Tape, Machines, May

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• I know how deeply slothful I am.

  Joseph Epstein

  Sloth, Know How, Knows

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

  Joseph Epstein

  Distance, Giving, Looks

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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• The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reality, Broken, Life Is

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