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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.

James Thurber

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBER

Answer Better Known Question
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.
JAMES THURBER

Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
JAMES THURBER

Future Guess Past Sound
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Man Myself Old Writing
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
JAMES THURBER

Destination Direction End Journey Path
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Break Up Love Yourself
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
JAMES THURBER

Exception Rule
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman 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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
JAMES THURBER

Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
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

Collision Fly Greatness Man World
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER

Angry Awareness Fear Future Past

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