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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
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
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual 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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
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
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
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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

She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.

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