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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

James Thurber

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
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
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
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
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
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself

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