Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Alfred Cerfwas an American publisher, one of the founders of American publishing firm Random House. Cerf was also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line?...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 May 1898
CountryUnited States of America
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Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business
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What rotten luck. Obviously, another book at this time about exactly the same subject would be a sad anticlimax!
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There have been too many books in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
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A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.