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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#awe #einstein #emotion #eyes #life

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#man #paid #per #perhaps #piece

How can you think and hit at the same time? ↗

— Yogi Berra

#how #same #think #time #you

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

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

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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#come #dissipated #done #get #great

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coat #dry #get #into #martini

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

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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Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#dumb #generally #input #speaking