Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 25, 2007
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"  
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
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Jean Kerr  
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978  
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
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