So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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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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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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