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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

James Thurber

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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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
JAMES THURBER

Laughter People Tragedy
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
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
JAMES THURBER

Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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Collision Fly Greatness Man World
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
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
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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Man Myself Sharp

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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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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