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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

James Thurber

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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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

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