Don’t get it right, just get it written.
JAMES THURBER
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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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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