QUOTES by James Thurber
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"I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method."
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"Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage."
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"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first."
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"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."
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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
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"For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide."
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"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
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"I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart."
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"Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised"
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"Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After."
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"Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long."
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"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."
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"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his."
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"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."
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"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
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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."
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"Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the distraction of the camera. I just want to stay in it."
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"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
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"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness."
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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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"Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life."
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