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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.: Peter de Vries
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.: Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)

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