All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
JAMES THURBERThere is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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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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