The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

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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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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

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Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

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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.

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber in My Life and Hard Times (1933)
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