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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Bennett Cerf

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.
BENNETT CERF

Book Country Facts
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
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
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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Intelligent Rights Thinking
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
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
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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
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
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
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night

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