If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
JAMES THURBERBoys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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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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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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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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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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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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