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I sell a lot of epigrams. The pay is like $5 a sentence. And the epigram has to be clever and witty. It also has to be a specific length. Not too long, not too short. I sell them and they go wherever they go for publishing after they are made into word puzzles for Sunday newspapers.

Anyway, I got an email from a friend who worked a word puzzle from Sundays paper, my name identified me as the source of the quote, and she knows Jim Johnson! or JAMES B JOHNSON.

I had forgotten this particular quote, actually I dont recall any of them. But it says: A TENDER HEART IS OFTEN EVIDENCE OF A TENDER MIND. Close.

You wont get rich writing epigrams, and you need to write a boxcar load of them per sale.

Almost no one will recognize your name, but I suppose you could maybe do a credit card commercial if youre obscure enough.
 
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Here lies my wife: here let her lie!
Now she's at rest — and so am I.
— John Dryden

One of my all time favorite epigrams.

... I had no idea James...
 
Ever tried Haiku ?
It's difficult to get the right number of syllables in English but I like those quoted as being replacement error messages for Windows, such as:

Yesterday it worked
today it does not
Windows is like that.
 
On another board (MSN), I used to swap haiku insults with another poster.
 
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