The unicorn is a mythical beast.
JAMES THURBERSo much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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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 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.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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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 most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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