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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 29, 2026
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)  
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)  
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)  
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
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Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)  
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