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A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is "Don't you wish you knew?"

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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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I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

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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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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley
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Born: September 15, 1889
Died: November 21, 1945 (aged 56)
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