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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.

— Robert Benchley Robert Benchley (1955)

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.

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The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now."

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

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