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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
JAMES THURBER

Probability Thinking Worth
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old 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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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Dog Himself Level Man Success
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.
JAMES THURBER

Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBER

Body Count Patience Yourself

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