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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

James Thurber

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBER

Confusion Happiness Thinking
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
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.
JAMES THURBER

Book Dreams Evidence Live Myself Thinking
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Definite Development Face Myself Structure
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Act Move Myself Writing
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
JAMES THURBER

Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBER

Fantasy Myth Unicorn

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