James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. ↗

— James Thurber

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ↗

— James Thurber

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ↗

— James Thurber

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I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. ↗

— James Thurber

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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. ↗

— James Thurber

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. ↗

— James Thurber

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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? ↗

— James Thurber

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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ↗

— James Thurber

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

— James Thurber

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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. ↗

— James Thurber

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