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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - January 26, 2026
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )  
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)  
I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.
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Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One  
Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
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George Iles  
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