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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

James Thurber

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.
JAMES THURBER

Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
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
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
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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

Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

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