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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - November 7, 2025
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
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David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005  
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973  
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Ursula K. LeGuin  
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)  
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