Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved Roger Rosenblatt More Quotes by Roger Rosenblatt More Quotes From Roger Rosenblatt If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion. Roger Rosenblatt actors writing way Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend. Roger Rosenblatt careers work people What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. Roger Rosenblatt mourning differences grief Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen the British really coming by my house looking for it. And besides, the right to bear arms is not an absolute right anyway, as New York's Sullivan Law proves. We talk about ourselves as a violent society, and some of that is right and some of it is claptrap. But I think if you took away the guns, and I mean really take away the guns, not what Congress is doing now, you would see that violent society diminish considerably. Roger Rosenblatt new-york mean thinking One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection. Roger Rosenblatt patterns kind perfect There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal. Roger Rosenblatt animal men If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. Roger Rosenblatt reading mind men When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing. Roger Rosenblatt dresses writing needs Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. Roger Rosenblatt brain children school The trick in foraging for a tooth lost in coffee grounds is not to be misled by the clumps. The only way to be sure is to rub each clump between your thumb and index finger, which makes a mess of your hands. Roger Rosenblatt teeth coffee hands If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.' Roger Rosenblatt self calling firsts If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something. Roger Rosenblatt adjectives three needs Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given. Roger Rosenblatt writing teacher giving The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief. Roger Rosenblatt bills rights ideas Live in the past, but don't remember too much. Roger Rosenblatt too-much remember past Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun. Roger Rosenblatt fit weapons gun Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong. Roger Rosenblatt criticize idiot persons They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight. Roger Rosenblatt If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems the most comprehensible to me would be the God who set us spinning and said 'Good luck.' Roger Rosenblatt good me faith god Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you. Roger Rosenblatt something think you death
