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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.

James Thurber

The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
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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Disturb Himself Listening Reason
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 Myself Sharp
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking
There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Exception Rule
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
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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Edge Existence Literature
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
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.
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Place Presence Right Woman Wrong

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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