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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

James Thurber

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
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 never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
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
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
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Catch Herself Known Myself Poet Quite Writing
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Alcohol Drink Enough Right
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Finding Writing Yourself
Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
JAMES THURBER

Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

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