I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
JAMES THURBERI do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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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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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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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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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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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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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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