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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

James Thurber

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

Definite Development Face Myself Structure
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
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 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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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
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
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

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