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Robert Benchley

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Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.


— Robert Benchley


#afraid #phobias #tell #us #will

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.


— Robert Benchley


#around #china #ear #end #going

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.


— Robert Benchley


#any #author #come #easily #great

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


#difficult #first #front #getting #given

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.


— Robert Benchley


#any #anyone #doing #moment #provided

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


— Robert Benchley


#america #children #class #classes #first

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.


— Robert Benchley


#already #cannot #child #children #dogs

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


— Robert Benchley


#compounding #drinking #felony #fools #makes

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.


— Robert Benchley


#game #go #happens #hometown #matter

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.


— Robert Benchley


#death #family #hangover #nothing #only






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PubliRobert Benchleyd by Wings (January 30 1996) ISBN 978-0-517-41139-1. The resulting film How to Sleep was filmed in two days and featured Benchley as both the narrator and sleeper the latter a role Benchley claimed was "not much of a strain as [he] was in bed most of the time. A.

His legacy includes written work and numerous short film appearances. He also made a name for himself in Hollywood when his short film How to Sleep was a popular success and won Best Short Subject at the 1935 Academy Awards and his many memorable appearances in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent and a dramatic turn in Nice Girl?. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.

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