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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.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
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
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
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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Artist Childhood Man Remember
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
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
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.
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Act Move Myself Writing
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
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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.
JAMES THURBER

Cleaning Hands Night Reason

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