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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.

James Thurber

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
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
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy

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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