The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
JAMES THURBERThe unicorn is a mythical beast.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Humourists lead… an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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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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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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