Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 04, 2017
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"  
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
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Allan Goldfein  
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)  
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)  
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