There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.James Thurber
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
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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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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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