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Quote by James Thurber
Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if ther

Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber

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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. – James Thurber

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber

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Men
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-workers party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. – Sloane Crosley

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.. its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you dont need to have anything else; and if you dont have it, it doesnt much matter what else you have. – James Barrie

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Women

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. – Dennis Rodman

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Women

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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They succeed, because they think they can. – Virgil

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin

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Where there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. – Dorthea Lange

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