Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
JAMES THURBERProgress was all right. Only it went on too long.
More James Thurber Quotes
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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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The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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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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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
JAMES THURBER