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James Thurber

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing 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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
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
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom

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