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«It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
«He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
«Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?»
«Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.»
«All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.»
«The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.»
«Discussion in America means dissent.»
«Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead»
«Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other»
Author: James Thurber
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«Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.»
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