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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

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

Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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
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
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
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
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
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 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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep

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