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

James Thurber

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
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
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
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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