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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

James Thurber

Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
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.
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Act Move Myself Writing
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing

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