Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
JAMES THURBERI 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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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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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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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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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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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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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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