Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
JAMES THURBERTwo is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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 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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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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 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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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