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.
BENNETT CERFOne 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.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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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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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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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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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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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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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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The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
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