Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
JAMES THURBERThere is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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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.
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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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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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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.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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