Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
JAMES THURBERProgress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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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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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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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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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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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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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 myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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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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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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