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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 10, 2026
Communism is like one big phone company.
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Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)  
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)  
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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993), quoted in Linda Botts, "Loose Talk" (1980)  
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