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

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.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience 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
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 get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing

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

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