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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

James Thurber

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
JAMES THURBER

Children Position Thinking Woman
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBER

Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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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Dog Himself Level Man Success
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy

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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