A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

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About Fred Allen

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John Florence Sullivan (May 31, 1894 – March 17, 1956), known professionally as Fred Allen, was an American comedian. His absurdist, topically pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show (1932–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio.

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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

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I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.

[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

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First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

—Martin Myers

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

—Virginia Woolf

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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

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I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

—Robert Brault

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