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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

James Thurber

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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