Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBERReason is 6/7 of treason.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance – a sharp, vindictive glance.
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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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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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