So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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I never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
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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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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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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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