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

James Thurber

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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
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
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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 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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking

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

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