The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBERI myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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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.
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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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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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