Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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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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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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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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