I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
JAMES THURBERSixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
More James Thurber Quotes
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I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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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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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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