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Joseph Epstein



Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, Snobbery, Friendship, and Fabulous Small Jews. He has been editor of American Scholar and has written for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Commentary, Town and Country, and other magazines.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 5,860 ratings · 904 reviews · 106 distinct works • Similar authors
Snobbery: The American Vers...
3.38 avg rating — 703 ratings — published 2002 — 12 editions
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Fabulous Small Jews
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Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins
3.58 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions
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Friendship: An Expose – A W...
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Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit
3.14 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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Literary Education and Othe...
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The Novel, Who Needs It?
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Never Say You've Had a Luck...
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The Love Song of A. Jerome ...
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Fred Astaire
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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, Friendship: An Exposé
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“Of all the seven deadly sins, only Envy is no fun at all.”
― Joseph Epstein, Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins
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“All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
― Joseph Epstein
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