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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

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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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light

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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