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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

~Robert Benchley

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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

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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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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

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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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We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.

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If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

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

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: September 15th, 1889

Died: September 21st, 1945

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