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Author Quotes by Robert Benchley
- After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each…
- I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
- There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It…
- Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of…
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