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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.

James Thurber

I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
JAMES THURBER

Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
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.
JAMES THURBER

Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love 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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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