1) 6558. Benchley, Robert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...Robert Benchley: "Calvin Coolidge is dead."Dorothy Parker: "How can they tell?"Robert Benchley: "He had an erection." ATTRIBUTION:Robert Benchley (1889-1945), U.S....
2) 5021. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...What is this talked-of mystery of birth / But being mounted bareback on the earth? ATTRIBUTION: Riders in The Poetry of Robert Frost Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66...
3) 7160. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. ATTRIBUTION: Quoted by Margaret Bartlett Anderson Robert Frost...
4) 7161. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. ATTRIBUTION: Quoted by Margaret Bartlett Anderson Robert Frost and John Bartlett Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
5) 7162. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 7162 AUTHOR: Robert Frost QUOTATION: A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ATTRIBUTION: Quoted in The Letters...
6) 7163. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 7163 AUTHOR: Robert Frost QUOTATION: [Style is] that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying . It is the mind skating circles around...
7) 7167. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 7167 AUTHOR: Robert Frost QUOTATION: I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn. ATTRIBUTION: Quoted in...
8) 7168. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...Humor is the most engaging cowardice. ATTRIBUTION: On wit as a form of evasiveness, quoted in L R Thompson ed Selected Letters of Robert Frost Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
9) 7169. Robert Frost. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...You never take notes in a love affair. ATTRIBUTION: Quoted in Edward Connery Lathem ed Interviews with Robert Frost Holt, Rinehart & Winston 66...
10) 1586. Robert N C Nix. Simpson s Contemporary Quotations. 1988
...NUMBER: 1586 AUTHOR: Robert N C Nix QUOTATION: Be prepared, be sharp, be careful, and use the King s English well. And you can forget all the [other rules] unless...
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