Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
JAMES THURBEROne martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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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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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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 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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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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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.
JAMES THURBER