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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

James Thurber

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.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
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 safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself

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