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

James Thurber

Don’t get it right, just get it written.
JAMES THURBER

Right Writing
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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 is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious 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
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.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
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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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
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

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