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

~James Thurber

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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

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

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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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Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

~James Thurber

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 8th, 1894

Died: November 2nd, 1961

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