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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

James Thurber

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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
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
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
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
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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

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