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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

James Thurber

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

Man Myself Sharp
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
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
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

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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