Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 08, 2017
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)  
All phone calls are obscene.
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon  
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)  
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
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Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002  
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