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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

James Thurber

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves

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