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James Thurber

August 1, 2010 – 5:50 pm
Posted in America, Artists, Authors, Cartoonists, Comedians, Editors, Journalists, Reporters, WWI, WWII
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“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Lucian

“Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid”. –Lucian

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Stig Dagerman

“I come to understand what purity is: it means to feel something so wholeheartedly that it shrivels up all doubts, all cowardice and all considerations within one”. –Stig Dagerman

Charles Dickens

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

Thomas Carlyle

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle