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.
JAMES THURBERThe 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
More James Thurber Quotes
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Discussion in America means dissent.
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Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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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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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
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