Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
JAMES THURBERReason is 6/7 of treason.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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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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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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