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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
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
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
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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