Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBERIt is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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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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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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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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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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