The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
JAMES THURBERProgress was all right. Only it went on too long.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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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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She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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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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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
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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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For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.
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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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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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I 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.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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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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Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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