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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER

Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
JAMES THURBER

Funny Himself Person Smart World
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
JAMES THURBER

Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
JAMES THURBER

Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
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
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBER

Mathematics Safety
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
JAMES THURBER

Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
JAMES THURBER

Animal Dog Myself Thinking

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