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

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
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
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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 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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path

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