Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
JAMES THURBERI can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
More James Thurber Quotes
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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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 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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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