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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

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
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble

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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