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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

James Thurber

For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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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