There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
JAMES THURBERThere are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
More James Thurber Quotes
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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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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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not 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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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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