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

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
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
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
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time 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 trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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

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