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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

James Thurber

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall 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
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
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

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