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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.

Bennett Cerf

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
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Age Birthday Middle
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
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 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
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
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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War

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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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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