She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBERI 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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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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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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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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