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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

James Thurber

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
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
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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
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 think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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

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