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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

James Thurber

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
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBER

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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
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
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
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
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
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth

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