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From Quotes by James Thurber
- All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
- Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele…
- Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
- Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- It was Lisa, aged five, whose mother asked her to thank my wife for the peas we had sent them from our garden. 'I thought…
- 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…
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