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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

Bennett Cerf

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
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Book Home Teenager
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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Else Nothing People Television
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert’s writing was hazy, Ep’s statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
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Crazy Poetry Writing
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!
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College Teaching Today
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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Cooking Food Speech
I think it’s become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I’ve heard many people, boast, “I would never have a television set in my house,” well, these people are fools.
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Fun People Thinking
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
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Differences Effectiveness Ghost Stories
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
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Football Men Years
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
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Education School Teaching
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness

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