The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBERThere is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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