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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

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Break Up Love Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
JAMES THURBER

Act Move Myself Writing
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
JAMES THURBER

Death One Liner Reason Treason
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.
JAMES THURBER

Disturb Himself Listening Reason
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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.
JAMES THURBER

Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
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.
JAMES THURBER

Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBER

Born Children Myself

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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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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