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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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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

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Entertainment
Author
James Thurber
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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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Women
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James Thurber
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. – James Thurber

Category:
Truth
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James Thurber
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Other Quotes from
Sight
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. – John Milton

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Sight

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. – W. H. Auden

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Sight

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things. – Stevie Wonder

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Sight

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen. – John Jay Chapman

Category:
Sight

Random Quotes

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in ones horse as he is leaping. – A. W. Hare

Category:
Caution

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. – Robert Frost

Category:
Fight, Fighting

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. Its not like an action star. – Jackie Chan

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Change

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace – in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. – Croesus of Lydia

Category:
Sons