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

James Thurber

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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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
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 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
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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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 myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
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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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
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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

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