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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.

James Thurber

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.
JAMES THURBER

Edge Existence Literature
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
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.
JAMES THURBER

Place Presence Right Woman Wrong
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble

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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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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