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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Discussion in America means dissent.

James Thurber

America

Dissent

Don't get it right, just get it written.

James Thurber

Right

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber

Bed

Man

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.

James Thurber

Humor

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.