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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

James Thurber

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
JAMES THURBER

Angel Lifespan Time
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.
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Laughter People Tragedy
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
JAMES THURBER

Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
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
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.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason

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