It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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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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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 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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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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