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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

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

Born Children Myself
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
JAMES THURBER

Fools People Time Yourself
Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Body Count Patience Yourself
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Right Writing
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBER

Break Up Love Yourself
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Call Myself Number Phone Wrong Yourself
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
JAMES THURBER

Children Position Thinking Woman
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
Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Destination Direction End Journey Path
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.
JAMES THURBER

Feeling Heart Sadness Sorry Touch 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
Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
JAMES THURBER

Challenge Comedy Drugs Therapy
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBER

Mathematics Safety
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
JAMES THURBER

Believe Born Leadership Poet
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
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
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
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
JAMES THURBER

Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
JAMES THURBER

Future Guess Past Sound
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
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.
JAMES THURBER

Place Presence Right Woman Wrong

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