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

James Thurber

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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
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
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself

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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