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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Thurber

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
JAMES THURBER

Beginning Method Myself Open Word
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
JAMES THURBER

Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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

Believe Born Leadership Poet
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBER

Alcohol Drink Enough Right
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER

Face Fall Yourself
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
JAMES THURBER

Attention Beautiful One Liner

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

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