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Discussion in America means dissent.

James Thurber

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
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
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
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
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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

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