American - Writer | January 9, 1937 -
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
Joseph Epstein
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
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I think the story is my form.
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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.
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I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.
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I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
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My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.
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I know how deeply slothful I am.
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I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.
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