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Discussion in America means dissent.

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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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