Today is the birthday of Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997), author. He is well-known for his encyclopedic work The Joys of Yiddish and his stories about the night-school "prodigy" Hyman Kaplan that first appeared in the New Yorker in the 1930s. He is also known by the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross."A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead." - Leo Calvin Rosten
"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense." - Leo Calvin Rosten
"We see things as we are, not as they are." - Leo Calvin Rosten
"Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined." - Leo Calvin Rosten
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