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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

James Thurber

Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
JAMES THURBER

Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
Discussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBER

Country Discussion
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.
JAMES THURBER

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.
JAMES THURBER

Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBER

Enough Generation Lost Trouble
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER

Face Fall Yourself
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
JAMES THURBER

Death One Liner Reason Treason
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Man Myself Old Writing
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
JAMES THURBER

Man Myself Sharp
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
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBER

Fools People Time Yourself
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
JAMES THURBER

Effective Equality Reveal Writing
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER

Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
JAMES THURBER

Heartless Laughter Man Tears Terrible

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