Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
BENNETT CERFMost 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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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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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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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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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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For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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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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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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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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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 person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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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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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent 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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The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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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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