Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 14, 2014
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
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John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969), drama critic  
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)  
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
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Robert Orben  
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
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Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"  
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