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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.

James Thurber

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Break Up Love Yourself
For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
JAMES THURBER

Accent Ignore Language Pronounce
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
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
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
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.
JAMES THURBER

Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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 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
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
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.

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