Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
JAMES THURBERThe unicorn is a mythical beast.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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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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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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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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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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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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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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