The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
JAMES THURBERBut what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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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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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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 unicorn is a mythical beast.
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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