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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber

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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
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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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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.
JAMES THURBER

Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking

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