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«We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.»
«He who hesitates is sometimes saved.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: hesitates
«He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: pushing, push forward
«Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: daytime
«From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.»
«A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: caption, captions, dragged
«The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.»
«Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.»
«You may as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward»
Author: James Thurber (Writer) | Keywords: fall flat
«He's very bright, but he's too extreme for a lot of people,»

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