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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

James Thurber

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 can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

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