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

James Thurber

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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
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
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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