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.
JAMES THURBERComedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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