Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
JAMES THURBERIf I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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