James Thurber Zitate auf Englisch

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

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

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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

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There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

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The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

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Don't get it right, just get it written.

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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