A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from December 26, 2015
“I know I’m drinking myself to a slow death, but then I’m in no hurry”

Entry in progress—B.P.
   
Wikiquote: Robert Benchley
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, critic and actor.
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So who’s in a hurry?
. To a friend who had told him that his particular drink was slow poison, as quoted in Robert Benchley (1955) by Nathaniel Benchley, ch. 1.
   
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American Journal of Psychotherapy
1958
Pg. 124:
SLOW DEATH
Psychiatrist: “Your drinking is a slow suicide.”
Patient: “I’m in no hurry.”
 
Google Books
The Time of Laughter
By Corey Ford
Boston, MA: Little, Brown
1967
Pg. 164:
“Do you know that drinking is slow death?” “So who’s in a hurry?” Benchley asked, stirring a Martini contentedly.
 
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Dorothy Parker:
What Fresh Hell Is This?

By Marion Meade
New York, NY: Villard Books
1988
Pg. 321:
“Bob,” Scott Fitzgerald said after he had gone on the wagon, “don’t you know that drinking is slow death?”
 
Benchley had a ready answer. “So who’s in a hurry?”
 
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Wit
BY Des MacHale
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Pub.
2003
Pg. 26:
I know I’m drinking myself to a slow death, but I’m in no hurry. — ROBERT BENCHLEY
 
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I know I’m drinking myself to a slow death, but then I’m in no hurry.
Robert Benchley
7:31 PM - 6 Jun 2015
Albuquerque, NM

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