Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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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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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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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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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 myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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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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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 you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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