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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
JAMES THURBER

Definite Development Face Myself Structure
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
JAMES THURBER

Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBER

Mathematics Safety
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Advice Art Man
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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.
JAMES THURBER

Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
JAMES THURBER

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

Brutal Difference Ourselves
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.
JAMES THURBER

Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon 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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
JAMES THURBER

Marriage Mutual Thinking
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
JAMES THURBER

Beginning Method Myself Open Word
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Break Up Love Yourself

Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

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