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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

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

Enough Generation Lost Trouble
So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBER

Finding Writing Yourself
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
JAMES THURBER

Cross Desire Friendship Lost Street
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Face Fall Yourself
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Come Earth Inheritance Weakness
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.
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Dog Happiness Man Strange Trouble
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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Belief Dog Heaven Immortal Known Myself Person
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
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
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

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.

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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.

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