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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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 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

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