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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

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
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
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
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner

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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