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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The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
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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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I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
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Clarence Budington Kelland
- Born: July 11, 1881
- Died: February 18, 1964
- Occupation: Film writer