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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

James Thurber

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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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