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

James Thurber

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
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce

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

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