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.
JAMES THURBERIt is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
More James Thurber Quotes
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Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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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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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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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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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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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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