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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.

James Thurber

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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
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
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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 difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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 never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.

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