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

James Thurber

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

Face Fall Yourself
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm

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

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