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Robert Benchley

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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.


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


— Robert Benchley


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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.


— Robert Benchley


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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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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.


— Robert Benchley


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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.


— Robert Benchley


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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.


— Robert Benchley


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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.


— 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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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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