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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."
Explore more quotes by Robert Benchley
"At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands."
"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."
"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."
"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."
"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."
"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."
"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."
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