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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
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
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman 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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
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
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
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

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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