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

James Thurber

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Born Leadership Poet
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
JAMES THURBER

Behavior Man Mindset Understand

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