I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBERThere are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Don’t get it right, just get it written.
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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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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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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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When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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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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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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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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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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