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Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997) was born in Lodz, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher, academic and humorist best remembered for his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan (first published in The New Yorker in the 1930s, and later reprinted in two volumes—The Education of Hyman Kaplan and The Return of Hyman Kaplan, under the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross). He is also well-known for his encyclopedic volume The Joys of... full article at wikipedia

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Satire is focused bitterness.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

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Mister Cory	Feb 23, 1957
The Dark Corner	Apr 9, 1946
Sleep, My Love	Feb 18, 1948
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