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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 12, 2023
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)  
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )  
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)  
Never answer a critic, unless he's right.
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Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)  
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