Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 26, 2014
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)  
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)  
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)  
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