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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.

James Thurber

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
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite 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
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 the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
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
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

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