James Thurber

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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why

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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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You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night

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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years

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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised