American - Author | December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
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