"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."

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Source : Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge

Max Eastman

#Art Quotes #Lying Quotes #Style Quotes

“The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.”

Source : Lavinia Greenlaw (2015). “The Importance of Music to Girls”, p.140, Faber & Faber
“Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.”
“Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.”

Source : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.250, Columbia University Press
“I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce.”

Source : "Der Afrikafeldzug: Rommels Wüstenkrieg 1941-1943". Book by Franz Kurowski, p. 112, 1986.
“I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.”
“First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.”
“I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.”
“If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.”

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