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Don’t get it right, just get it written.

James Thurber

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
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm

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