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Robert Benchley

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1949. According to Nigel Rees, Cassell's Humorous Quotations, the following appeared in Punch in 1924: " 'It took me nearly ten years to learn that I couldn't write.' 'I suppose you gave it up then?' 'Oh, no! By that time I had a reputation established.' " The issue referred to by Rees is 6 Feb., and the cartoonist is R. Curry.

Robert Benchley

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“Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.”
“I don't want to go anywhere outside of gymnastics.”
“As a young boy you gave me whoopings to save my life.”
“In a town church the right place for the admission of light.”
“If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.”
“I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.”
“After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.”

Source : Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.68, Macmillan
“One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.”

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."

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