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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
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
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman

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