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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

James Thurber

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
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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Artist Childhood Man Remember
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
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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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
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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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
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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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Effective Equality Reveal Writing
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
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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Future Guess Past Sound

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