Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - December 29, 2020
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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Carrie Fisher (1956 - )  
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)  
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )  
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)  
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