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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

Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
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
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
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
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
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

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