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.
JAMES THURBERThe difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
More James Thurber Quotes
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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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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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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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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