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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James Thurber

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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
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
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
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

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