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I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
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One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
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I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
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One square foot less and it would be adulterous.
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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
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There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
September 15, 1889
Died:
November 21, 1945
(aged 56)
Bio:
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor.
Known for:
The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
How to Sleep (1935)
A Night at the Movies (1937)
I Married a Witch (1942)
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