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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

James Thurber

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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
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
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
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
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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

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