Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely...

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change...

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his...

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without...

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today...

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.