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One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

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
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
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
Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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Believe Discovery Soul
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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 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
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Beautiful Laughing Sound
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
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
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
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
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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