So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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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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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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