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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

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
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 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
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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
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

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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