Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBERBeautiful things don’t ask for attention.
More James Thurber Quotes
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
JAMES THURBERI can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBERThere is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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.
JAMES THURBERThe 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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
JAMES THURBERYou might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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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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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
JAMES THURBERNowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
JAMES THURBERThe laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
JAMES THURBERSomebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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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.
JAMES THURBERWith 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 never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBERI never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
JAMES THURBERMan is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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