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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.

James Thurber

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
JAMES THURBER

Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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 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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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
JAMES THURBER

Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Advice Art Man
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.
JAMES THURBER

Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing

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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