Quotes by Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

Animal

Cat

Jobs

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.

Magazines

Mail

Want

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about… We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Dream

Inspirational

Life

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

Never Quit

Trust

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don’t hesitate.

Secret

Speaking French

Way

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Bravery

Courage

Nine

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Mean

Reading

Thoughtful

Envy is never general, but always very particular – at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Envy

Feels

Kind

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

Possibility

Sex

Variety

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Discovery

Thinking

Writing

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Absence

Adrift

Aggravation

Animal

Anti Semitism

Application

Arrows

Art

Atheism

Bears

Beer

Believe

Birth

Book

Boring

Bravery

Breathing Space

Broken

Cat

Cheerful

Chiefs

Class

Clever

Complainers

Complaints

Conversation

Country

Courage

Deeper

Defined

Discovery

Distance

Dream

Drinking

Envy

Fashion

Feels

Flow

Form

Fun

Gazing

Genius

Giving

Has Beens

High Standards

Hunting

Ice Cream

Icy

Important

Individual Differences

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Quotes by Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein

A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.

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.

Always seek the general and never quite trust it.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don’t hesitate.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

Envy is never general, but always very particular – at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

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