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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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

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