Tag: James Grover Thurber

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

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One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs…. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

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Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

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The difference between our decadence and the Russians’ is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

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

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

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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