Reason is 6/7 of treason.
JAMES THURBERAmericans want to go to heaven without dying.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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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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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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The 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.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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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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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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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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