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" A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. "
Level
Drawing
Dragged
" All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. "
Learn
Die
Running
" But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? "
Darkness
Soft
Sleep
" Discussion in America means dissent. "
America
Discussion
Dissent
" Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. "
Dead
Healthy
Rise
" 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. "
Humor
Natural
Like
" Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. "
Humor
Tranquility
Emotional
" I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. "
Think
Trouble
Year
" Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen! "
Blind
Trouble
Small
" Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. "
Us
Forward
Anger
" Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision. "
Great
World
Flying
" Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. "
Men
Noisy
Desperation
" Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. "
Age
Old Age
Man
" One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough. "
Martini
Right
Three
" Progress was all right. Only it went on too long. "
Right
Funny
Too
" Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. "
Lead
Confusion
Thinking
" Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). "
Bed
Man
Never
" The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. "
Animals
Man
Knowledge
" The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. "
Our
Difference
Russians
" The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. "
More
Terrible
Laughter
" The most dangerous food is wedding cake. "
Dangerous
Cake
Food
" The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. "
Sound
Attic
Future
" There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. "
Two
Kinds
Glow
" The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. "
Wit
Purpose
World
" Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? "
You
Wrong
Funny
" Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? "
You
Like
Funny
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