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23 quotes by Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944, Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
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Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

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The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn... →

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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

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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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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

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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... →

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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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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive... →

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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... →

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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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