Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - February 01, 2017
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)  
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)  
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
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Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)  
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