All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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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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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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