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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

James Thurber
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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.

James Thurber
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Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

James Thurber
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Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I sop rags with beer and lay them out in careful strips. With rags soaked in beer I tease cockroaches from a crack in the baseboard. By morning they're good and drunk and I pop them into a baggy, then take them outside and throw the little buggers away.

Bob Thurber, Nothing But Trouble
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

James Thurber
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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

James Thurber
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

James Thurber
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber
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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?

James Thurber
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