Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
JAMES THURBERDon’t get it right, just get it written.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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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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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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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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Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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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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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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