Clarence Budington Kelland quotes
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“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
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“I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.”
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“Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.”
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“The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.”
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