Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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