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Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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God bless... God damn.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
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The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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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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