The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
BENNETT CERFI don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
More Bennett Cerf Quotes
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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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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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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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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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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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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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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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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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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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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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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