I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
JAMES THURBERI 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.
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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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