"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."
-Robert Benchley
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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.“
-Robert Benchley
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"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
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"Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other."
-Robert Benchley
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"There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them."
-Robert Benchley
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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."
-Robert Benchley
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"Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?"
-Robert Benchley
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"When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits."
-Allen Klein
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"I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet."
-David Ortiz
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"What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy."
-Mario Puzo
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"So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb."
-Alastair Campbell
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted."
-Fiona Shaw
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"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
-John Thorn
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