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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 17, 2024
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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Christopher Hampton  
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III  
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Quentin Crisp  
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)  
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