Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 19, 2019
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)  
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)  
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
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Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"  
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)  
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