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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - September 22, 2025
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
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Bill Vaughan  
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)  
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
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George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946  
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
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Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)  
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