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Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?Bennett Cerf
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.Bennett Cerf
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They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly too without a single stutter. Later he explained "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."Bennett Cerf
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Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.Bennett Cerf
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.Bennett Cerf
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.Bennett Cerf