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

James Thurber

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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself

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