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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 19, 2025
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.
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John Gunther (1901 - 1970)  
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)  
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732  
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004  
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