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.
JAMES THURBER
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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