“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.” — Alexandre Dumas
Quotations
Benchley in Venice
STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.
— Robert Benchley, telegram from Venice
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“A period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now — who cares?” — Pictorial Review editor Herbert R. Mayes, turning down a prepublication serialization of Gone With the Wind, 1936
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“It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.” — Groucho Marx
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“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” — Alfred Hitchcock
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“All great men are monsters.” — Honoré de Balzac
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“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” — Aristotle
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“Communism is like one big phone company.” — Lenny Bruce
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“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I’ve ever known.” — Walt Disney
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“History is more or less bunk.” — Henry Ford