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Joseph Epstein

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

— Joseph Epstein food

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

— Joseph Epstein sin

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 time

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 thing off.

— Joseph Epstein joy

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

— Joseph Epstein art

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

— Joseph Epstein self

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 man

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

— Joseph Epstein sin

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.

— Joseph Epstein reading

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 Society page was replaced by the Style section.

— Joseph Epstein men

I know how deeply slothful I am.

— Joseph Epstein

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 than to give.

— Joseph Epstein end

One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.

— Joseph Epstein you

I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

— Joseph Epstein thought

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

— Joseph Epstein confidence

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

— Joseph Epstein sex

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 music

I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive.

— Joseph Epstein funny

I think the story is my form.

— Joseph Epstein story

We know the ideal isn't where the action is.

— Joseph Epstein action

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

— Joseph Epstein

I am married to someone I love.

— Joseph Epstein love

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

— Joseph Epstein friend

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