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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
"It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles."
"There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!"
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception."
"See? my mother would say, smiling at me and my sister, Carol, in turn. "We live in the greatest country on earth. See how lucky we are?And yet the ash continued swirling down, and the smells of death came through the windows, crept under the door, hung in our carpets and curtains, and screamed of her lie.Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?And if you lie to a liar, is the sin somehow negated or reversed?These are the kinds of questions I ask myself now: in these dark, watery hours, when night and day are interchangeable. No. Not true."
"You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean."
Explore more quotes by James Thurber
"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."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision."
"The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals."
"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
"I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance."
"My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language."
"Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!"
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