Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 30, 2013
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)  
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
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Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)  
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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Peter McArthur  
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
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John Cage (1912 - 1992)  
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