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Robert Ley Inspirational Quotes (147)

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Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.
Robert Benchley
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I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.
Robert Sheckley
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What if miliseconds influence centuries?
Robert Cowley
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley
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This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as regulations but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.
Robert Benchley
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I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
Robert Creeley
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Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.
Robert Benchley
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley
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Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of
Robert Benchley
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When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.
Robert Ley
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The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
Robert Morley
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I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.
Robert Sheckley
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I have never willingly chased a ball.
Robert Morley
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My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.
Robert Benchley
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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.
Robert Benchley
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I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.
Robert Sheckley
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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley
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She sleeps alone at last.
Robert Benchley
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We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
Robert Benchley
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The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.
Robert Benchley
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The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
Robert Sheckley
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It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.
Robert Creeley
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The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley
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There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley
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