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James Thurber has 105 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years…
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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
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Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty
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When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the…
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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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There isn’t anything good to say about Kick-Ass 2, the even more witless, mirthless follow-up to Kick-Ass.
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God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the…
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a…
— Veronica Roth
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
— James Thurber
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