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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

James Thurber

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
JAMES THURBER

Collision Fly Greatness Man World
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
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
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
The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Fantasy Myth Unicorn
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
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
JAMES THURBER

Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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Edge Existence Literature
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Man Myself Sharp
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

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