Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - March 31, 2014
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )  
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)  
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)  
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
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David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005  
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