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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

James Thurber

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
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.
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Act Move Myself Writing
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself 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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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.
JAMES THURBER

Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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