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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

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
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
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
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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