There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
JAMES THURBERI never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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.
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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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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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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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