Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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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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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I 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.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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 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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