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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

James Thurber

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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
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
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
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
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success

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