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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber

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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
JAMES THURBER

Act Move Myself 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
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER

Face Fall Yourself

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