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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

James Thurber

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light

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