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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.

James Thurber

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
JAMES THURBER

Effective Equality Reveal Writing
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
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
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
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 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
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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy

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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