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• It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous.
  -- Robert Benchly...
• It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
  -- Robert Benchley...
• I woke up to discover it had all been a terrible film...
• One should want only one thing and want it constantly.
  Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing....
• For fifteen days I struggled to prove that no functions analogous to those I have since called Fuchsian functions could exi
  I was then very ignorant. Every day I sat down at my work table where I spent an hour or two...
• To me old age is fifteen years older than I am. -- Bernard M. Baruch
• The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys.
  But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it....