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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite 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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
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
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
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible

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