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«A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.»
Author: Robert Benchley
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breathing, button, collar, collars, failing, giddiness, Golden Age, inability, kidney, kidneys, orchestra, rent, shortness, shortness of breath, shut off, The Golden Age, trembling
«Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.»
Author: Robert Benchley
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Ignorance
«Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.»
«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»
«Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?»
Author: Robert Benchley
«I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.»
Author: Robert Benchley
«The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.»
«The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.»
«I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.»
Author: Robert Benchley
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succeeded
«STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.»
Author: Robert Benchley
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advise
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