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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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James Thurber
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You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night."
James Thurber
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All right, have it your way -- you heard a seal bark!
James Thurber
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
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I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?
James Thurber
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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
James Thurber
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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.
James Thurber
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
James Thurber
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
James Thurber
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
James Thurber
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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
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Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James Thurber
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Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. [sic]
James Thurber
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.
James Thurber
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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
James Thurber
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All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber
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Moral: Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
James Thurber
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
James Thurber
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There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
James Thurber
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
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Discussion in America means dissent.
James Thurber
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I am not a dog lover. A dog lover to me means a dog that is in love with another dog.
James Thurber
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
James Thurber
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Women are wiser than men, because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
James Thurber
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One (martini) is all right, two is too many, three is not enough.
James Thurber