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

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
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
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
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
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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.
JAMES THURBER

Act Move Myself Writing
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself

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