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James Thurber

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
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
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
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
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
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
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
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

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