One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
JAMES THURBERLove is what you’ve been through with somebody.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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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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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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