JTJames Thurber

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James Thurber

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

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

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02Undated

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

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03Undated

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

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04Undated

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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05Undated

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

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06Undated

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

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07Undated

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

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08Undated

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

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09Undated

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

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