Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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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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