It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
JAMES THURBERIt is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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.
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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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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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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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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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.
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The unicorn is a mythical beast.
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A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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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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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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