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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Thurber

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
JAMES THURBER

Funny Himself Person Smart World
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
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
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
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

Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

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