There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
JAMES THURBERThe 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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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