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A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
— Joseph Roth
Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.
— Joseph Roth
Only the small things in life are important
— Joseph Roth
And in the evening concealed fluorescent tubes light the room so evenly that it is no longer illuminated, it is a pool of luminosity.
— Joseph Roth
Amazing, Heather thought, looking back at the email message. Who was this incredible, gifted person?
— Mike Wells
Our living room had a clock in it that used to clear its throat before striking the hours. He is that harrumphing.
— Joseph Roth
I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.
— Joseph Roth
When I leave the hotel the porter stands beside the revolving door, primed to greet me, like a talking fork.
— Joseph Roth
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
— Joseph Roth
If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.
— Damian Lillard
A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!" Which all the family re-echoed. "God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
— Charles Dickens
There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.
— Joseph Roth
If you fail, never give up.
Keep trying, you will succeed. — Lailah Gifty Akita
Keep trying, you will succeed. — Lailah Gifty Akita
He wore a gleaming top hat. He had a pomaded, uptwirled black moustache. He looked like a first-class funeral.
— Joseph Roth
Taittinger pondered, but he was well aware that no amount of pondering had yet helped him to a sensible conclusion.
— Joseph Roth
Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world. 96
— Joseph Roth
That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.
— Joseph Roth
Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.
— Joseph Roth
There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.
— Doris Lessing
The woman who had escaped with her life now wept for the loss of her umbrella and was not at all grateful that her limbs were intact.
— Joseph Roth
It's not just being called to the ministry that counts.
— James Green Somerville
The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.
— Joseph Roth
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
— Ani DiFranco
Dazzled by the luminosity of logic, she leans back, closing her eyes. She loses herself, she is lost.
— Joseph Roth
Perhaps one can see one's destiny accomplished before one's very eyes and still feel hungry.
— Joseph Roth
His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete.
— Joseph Roth
I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
— Tamara Tunie
Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.
— Joseph Roth
And thought she be but little, she is fierce.
— William Shakespeare