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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.
— Joseph Epstein
That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.
— Joseph Epstein
I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said, 'You are what you eat,' but if you happen to be an intellectual, you are what you quote.
— Joseph Epstein
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[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.
— Joseph Epstein
I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
— Joseph Epstein
Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.
— Joseph Epstein
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
— Joseph Epstein
The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.
— Joseph Epstein
We do choose how we shall live
— Joseph Epstein
We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.
— Joseph Epstein
I think the story is my form.
— Joseph Epstein
We know the ideal isn't where the action is.
— Joseph Epstein
I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.
— Joseph Epstein
Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.
— Joseph Epstein
Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.
— Joseph Epstein
...that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other.
— Joseph Epstein
Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.
— Joseph Epstein
For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.
— Joseph Epstein
Always seek the general and never quite trust it.
— Joseph Epstein
No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.
— Joseph Epstein
Old people like to give good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
— Joseph Epstein
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.
— Joseph Epstein
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
— Joseph Epstein
For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery
— Joseph Epstein
The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.
— Joseph Epstein
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
— Joseph Epstein
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.
— Joseph Epstein
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
— Joseph Epstein
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
— Joseph Epstein
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.
— Joseph Epstein
No one has really ever defined what a friend is.
— Joseph Epstein
To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment ...
— Joseph Epstein
If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?
— Joseph Epstein
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
— Joseph Epstein
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.
— Joseph Epstein
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams ... and what we do to make them come about.
— Joseph Epstein
I am married to someone I love.
— Joseph Epstein
