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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

James Thurber

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

Finding Writing Yourself
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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
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
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
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

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

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