I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken onc… - James Thurber

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I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well. But I don't think clearly — too many thoughts bump into one another. Trains of thought run on a track of the Central Nervous System — the New York Central Nervous System, to make it worse.

James Thurber

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James Grover Thurber (8 December 1894 – 2 November 1961) was an American humorist and cartoonist.

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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.

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

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