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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBER

Body Count Patience 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 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
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
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
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBER

Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
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.
JAMES THURBER

Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
JAMES THURBER

Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
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
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.
JAMES THURBER

Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

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