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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 20, 2018
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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Jimmy Breslin  
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004  
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)  
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
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Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)  
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