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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

James Thurber

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
JAMES THURBER

Attention Beautiful One Liner
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
JAMES THURBER

Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
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
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
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
JAMES THURBER

Beginning Method Myself Open Word
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
Discussion in America means dissent.
JAMES THURBER

Country Discussion
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBER

Face Fall Yourself
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBER

Born Children Myself
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBER

Fantasy Myth Unicorn
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
JAMES THURBER

Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBER

Desperate Live Man Noisy
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
JAMES THURBER

Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
JAMES THURBER

Animal Dog Myself Thinking
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

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