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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.

James Thurber

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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right

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