Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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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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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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