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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 16, 2017
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
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Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)  
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
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Jose Marti  
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"  
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)  
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