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Discussion in America means dissent.

James Thurber

So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
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
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
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
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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

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