There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
JAMES THURBERBoys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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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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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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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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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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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