The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBERFor one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
More James Thurber Quotes
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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 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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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