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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 8, 2024
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)  
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
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Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)  
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We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)  
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)  
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