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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.

James Thurber

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 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
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Achievement Advice Art Man
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.
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Laughter People Tragedy
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.

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