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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Thurber

Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
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 have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
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
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
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

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