Jonathan Rosen quotes
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“The things that make us human often make us ill.”
-- Jonathan RosenSource : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan
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“Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.”
-- Jonathan RosenSource : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan
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“Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.”
-- Jonathan RosenSource : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan
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“It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.”
-- Jonathan RosenSource : Jonathan Rosen (2001). “The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds”, p.85, A&C Black
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“The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.”
-- Jonathan Rosen
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“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”
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Source : "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.
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“There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;”
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“Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.”
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“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
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“If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.”
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