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• The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reality, Broken, Life Is

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• I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

  Joseph Epstein

  Book, People, Soul

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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 than to give.

  Joseph Epstein

  Order, Giving, Letters

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• Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

  Joseph Epstein

  Sex, Possibility, Variety

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• I am married to someone I love.

  Joseph Epstein

  Married

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. August 31, 2003.

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