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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

James Thurber

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing

She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

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