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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.

James Thurber

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
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
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
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
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
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 are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time

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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