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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 13, 2010
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )  
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)  
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)  
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net  
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