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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 18, 2016
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
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Russel Lynes  
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)  
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)  
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
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P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money  
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