Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 22, 2019
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)  
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
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Ralph Novak  
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare  
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)  
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