Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.
JAMES THURBERI never quite know when I’m not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, “Dammit, Thurber, stop writing.” She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.
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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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Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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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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Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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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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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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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 the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.
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