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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
JAMES THURBER

Act Move Myself Writing
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Born Leadership Poet
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
JAMES THURBER

Definite Development Face Myself Structure
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Advice Art Man

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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