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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

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
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 false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself

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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