All Robert Benchley Quotes
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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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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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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I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
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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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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
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We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
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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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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
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Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
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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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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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