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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

James Thurber

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner

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