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

James Thurber

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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
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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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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

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

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