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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBER

Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
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
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

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