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Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Robert E. Sherwood

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Robert E. Sherwood
Age: 59 †
Born: 1896
Born: April 4
Died: 1955
Died: November 14
Dramaturge
Film Critic
Historian
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
New Rochelle
New York
Robert Emmet Sherwood
Upholstery
Seat
Seats
Anxious
Anxiety

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He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.
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The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
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All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.
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That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
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