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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

James Thurber

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.
JAMES THURBER

Laughter People Tragedy
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong 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.
JAMES THURBER

Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Break Up Love Yourself
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself

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