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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
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
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.

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