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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 3, 2025
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)  
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931  
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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R. D. Laing  
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
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Peter De Vries  
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