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James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
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
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
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
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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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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