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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 16, 2009
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
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Phillip Lopate
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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What Wouldn't Jesus Do?
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