Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
JAMES THURBERI have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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