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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.

James Thurber

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
JAMES THURBER

Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
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
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
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
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
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
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
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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

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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